Study Guide For Shaffer S Developmental Psychology

Includes Chapter Outlines, Summaries, Vocabulary Self Tests, and Study Guidelines.

By Shirley Hensch of University of Wisconsin Colleges - Online. Includes learning objectives, chapter outlines and summaries, short-answer study questions, multiple-choice self-test items, answers to self-tests, and more.

Perfect for courses in child development or developmental psychology and arranged thematically in sections corresponding to chapter headings usually found in textbooks, this book is ideal for students wanting an accessible book to enrich their learning experience. Key Features: - Provides an overview of the place of each concept in Developmental Psychology under three headings, namely its meaning, origins and current usage. - Concepts are grouped into sections corresponding to the main themes usually covered in teaching. - Relevant concepts in the book are emboldened and linked by listing at the end of each concept - Guidance is provided to further reading on each of the concepts discussed. The book will be centrally important to undergraduate students who need to learn the language used by developmental psychologists in describing their studies, but will also help more advanced readers in checking their ideas regarding the nature and uSAGE of particular concepts.

This popular, topically organized, and thoroughly updated child and adolescent development text presents you with the best theories, research, and practical advice that developmentalists have to offer today. Authors David R. Shaffer and Katherine Kipp provide you with a current and comprehensive overview of child and adolescent development, written in clear, concise language that talks "to" you rather than "at" you. The authors also focus on application showing how theories and research apply to real-life settings. As a result, you will gain an understanding of developmental principles that will help you in your roles as parents, teachers, nurses, day-care workers, pediatricians, psychologists, or in any other capacity by which you may one day influence the lives of developing persons.

Written by S.A. Hensch, University of Wisconsin Colleges. The Study Guide will contain the following for every chapter of the text: learning objectives, chapter outlines & summaries, vocabulary self-test (Part I: provide the term, Part II: provide the definition). short-answer study questions (approximately 25 questions per chapter), multiple-choice self-test (approximately 10 per chapter with space for student to write their rational for choosing the answer they did), 5 types of Activities; 3-5 activities per chapter (including activities to facilitate mastery, activities using the media, self-report activities that personalize the material, activities with children, interviews or descriptions of other people), and an answer section that provides answers to the vocabulary self-test and multiple-choice self-test (which contains a rationale for the correct answer as well as an explanation of why the wrong answers are wrong).

David Shaffer's comprehensive and current coverage of social and personality development goes beyond the usual to help students discover the processes that underlie developmental change-so they come away with a real understanding of causes and intriguing complexities. Students learn why development occurs (the biological and environmental factors that cause children to change and contextual factors such as cross-cultural, familial, neighborhood, school, and peer-group influences). Shaffer explores the approaches that researchers use to test their theories and answer important questions about developing children and adolescents. This book's effective coverage of field research stands out from other texts not only for its accuracy and currency, but because Shaffer consistently juxtaposes classic research with the latest breakthroughs to help you appreciate how our knowledge builds on earlier findings.