Discovering the Life Span, Global Edition

3. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-292-05777-4
Verlag: Pearson

Buch, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 276 mm, Gewicht: 1409 g

Discovering the Life Span by Robert S. Feldman helps students truly connect to the material.  Written in an engaging and accessible style and organised in a modular format, this title allows instructors to cover the entire life span without having to sacrifice content throughout their course. Students will get a better sense of the entire process of development and understand how the domains of development work together.  Discovering the Life Span  is a meaningful learning experience that prepares readers to apply content to their personal and future professional lives.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Feldman, Robert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The Start of Life
• Chapter 3: Infancy
• Chapter 4: The Preschool Years
• Chapter 5: Middle Childhood
• Chapter 6: Adolescence
• Chapter 7: Early Adulthood
• Chapter 8: Middle Adulthood
• Chapter 9: Late Adulthood
• Chapter 10: Death and Dying

Über Autor(innen)

Robert S. Feldman  is Professor of Psychology and Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A recipient of the College Distinguished Teacher Award, he teaches psychology classes ranging in size from 15 to nearly 500 students. During the course of more than two decades as a college instructor, he has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses at Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, Virginia Commonwealth University, in addition to the University of Massachusetts.

Feldman, who initiated the Minority Mentoring Program at the University of Massachusetts, also has served as a Hewlett Teaching Fellow and Senior Online Teaching Fellow. He initiated distance learning courses in psychology at the University of Massachusetts.

Feldman also is actively involved in promoting the field of psychology. He is on the Board of Directors of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) and he also is on the Board of the FABBS Foundation

A Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science, Professor Feldman received a B.A. with High Honors from Wesleyan University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Feldman is a winner of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer award, and he has written more than 150 books, book chapters, and scientific articles. He has edited  Development of Nonverbal Behavior in Children  (Springer-Verlag),  Applications of Nonverbal Behavioral Theory and Research  (Erlbaum), and co-edited  Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behavior  (Cambridge University Press). He is also author of  Child Development, Understanding Psychology,  and  P.O.W.E.R. Learning: Strategies for Success in College and Life . His books have been translated into a number of languages, including Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese.

His research interests include honesty and deception in everyday life and the use of nonverbal behavior in impression management, and his research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research.

Feldman loves music, is an enthusiastic, if not-exactly-expert, pianist, and he enjoys cooking and traveling. He has three children, and he and his wife, a psychologist, live in western Massachusetts, in a home overlooking the Holyoke mountain range.