Essentials of Life-Span Development

by John W. Santrock

The entire lifespan in 500 pages. What’s the greatest challenge in teaching the Life-Span Development course? Covering a lifetime of material in a single term. Instructors from across the country have clamored for a streamlined text that captures the core concepts of life-span development. Essentials of Life-Span Development was carefully designed and constructed to deliver these core concepts along with a strong applications focus reflecting the broad range of interests and backgrounds of students taking this course. And as always with John Santrock’s texts, the latest research in the field is incorporated throughout.

Genres: Psychology, Textbooks, Science, Nonfiction, School, Reference, Read For School

544 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2007

Reviews

[Catherine · Rating 2 out of 5]

Images were absolutely terrible--like something out of a poorly edited '70s textbook. The info was okay, but honestly it mostly felt like a repeat of gen psych.

[Sonia · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you ever get the chance to take a Life-span development class in college/university then I would recommend you take it. It is a very fun class and will teach you many facts about life from Fetus to death.

This Textbook was easy to read and while some facts were outdated (like the one about TV influencing children), it still is a great compilation of research about us as we age. My teacher was also one of the best because he was very charismatic and really got us into the class.

[Kit]

I read this whole damn book for class so we're counting it

[Joel Cuthbert · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a textbook for a rather painful course, taught by one of the contributing authors I must confess. The textbook was reasonably fine, though generally falls into all the foibles of textbooks. In human sciences, textbooks are mostly just an endless list of facts supported by various studies. Lots of footnotes.

A lot of human development is pretty straightforward stuff, but one must memorize the particular complicated scientific names each author gives to things.

I would like to be a therapist one day. I would also consider myself someone on the poetic end when it comes to how I like to reflect on human experience. Science can be its own poetry, but it often lacks the beauty that fires my imagination.

Anyway, good luck with your studies.

The more I learn the less I know, etc

[Tyler · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a textbook for a college survey course on Human Development across the lifespan. I learned a lot. it was interesting. There is an enormous amount of material in here, some of which was fairly useful and good to know.

[Skai · Rating 5 out of 5]

Required book for my psychology 'developmental psych class. good information inside of this book

[Melvin Marsh · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not impressed. Read the book for an Intro to Development course. It's concise. I am not sure if this would be helpful to someone who is studying for the GRE Psychology Subject or not.

[Jake Jeffries · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a required book for a Lifespan and Development course.
The information was interesting and useful.
I found it to be fairly engaging for a textbook.

[Linda Branham · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great for school - well written

[Brandie White · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was for school lol

[erin · Rating 1 out of 5]

most of this is just common sense

[Mark Schlatter · Rating 3 out of 5]

For a Human Growth and Development class. Positives: fairly engaging throughout, with nice divisions between physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development. Negatives: a few typos with messed up statistics (a shame in a second edition) and a cover of very low quality.