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Human Development

3.85 of 5 stars 3.85  ·  rating details  ·  48 ratings  ·  12 reviews
The 11th edition of this classic best-seller retains the extensive and integrated cross-cultural and multicultural coverage, the proven Guidepost-Checkpoint learning system, and the balance between research and real-life applications that have made this text a long time favorite of students and faculty. In the warmly-written and engaging style that is their hallmark, Papal...more
Hardcover, 644 pages
Published October 29th 2008 by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua (first published 1978)
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abatage
abatage rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: non-fiction
It's a big, heavy, whopper of a book, but is currently the best text-book I've had the pleasure of reading. Not because of the content, but the delivery.

The content is fine: it's comprehensive and draws on countless available sources to create this collection of research into the human lifespan. Unfortunately, I have a personal dislike for reliance on statistical information - especially when the research was done decades ago, or on irrelevant generational comparisons. For instance: ...more
Mary
Mary rated it 5 of 5 stars
I bought this book after I had taken an university course about "Development ´s Psicology" in order to understand the procces of learning in science and education. After that, I have discovered in this book an excellente guide for understanding the different stages in the human beings psicological development and according to this information, work in the correct way of informing and teaching other people about complex information in science.
Ayu Puspita Sari
Honestly, this is the best psychology book I ever read, despite the demand the course gave me, I love both the book and the course. I think Human Development is the best class I take in this semester. Fun class with great textbook, and I'm all in.
Mel
Compré este libro porque era requerido para una de mis clases de educación, la profesora comentó que es uno de los libros recomendados como estudio para tomar el examen para la certificación como maestra.

El texto es comprensivo y la mayoria de las veces fácil de leer y entender. El tema del cual trata -como su nombre lo indica- es el desarrollo humano desde su formación (nacimiento), pasando y enumerando todas las etapas de la vida hasta el final de la misma; concentrandose principalm...more
Nur Islamia
Salah satu buku referensi yang paling diriku gunakan untuk analisa kasus
Koko Nata
Knowing ang understanding yourself with this book
aTeh
hmmm secara ini buku wajib.. wajib di baca.. wajib di pahami.. wajib di mengerti... wajib di hapalin kekekekekekeke
buku yang bagus... kelebihannya: banyak contoh2 yang upto date... cocoklah buat para mahasiswa hehehe
Paulina
Abarca las distintas etapas del desarrollo humano desde un enfoque cronologico, asi como el aspecto cognitivo, motor, psicosocial. Se encuentran tambien los principales teoricos y sus teorias mas relevantes.
Anindya
A best way to learn human life span. From the early life all the way to the end.
Papalia, Olds & Feldman (2003) inform us about physical, cognitive and psychosocial determinants contributed in human development!
Amy Ambarani
Amy Ambarani rated it 5 of 5 stars  ·  review of another edition
Recommends it for: everybody who want to know about life
Shelves: psychology
this is a text book when i study psychology. there's so much that we can find if we want to know about our life.. i mean really our life step by step in physical, emotional, psychology, etc.
Feka Angge Pramita
it`s about all human development. simple english, quite applicable, provide a lot of experiment studies.
Indra
a must-have read for a psychologist. comprehensive, simple to be understood, and complete.
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Sheilah
Sheilah rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: quit, grad-school
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