Essentials of Life-Span Development

by John W. Santrock

Based on hallmark features- its expert contributors, updated research and focus on applications, this title provides the presentation of lifespan development available. It is designed and constructed to deliver these core concepts along with a strong applications focus reflecting the broad range of interests of students taking this course.

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

512 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Catherine]

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]

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This Textbook was easy to read and while some facts were outdated (like the one about TV influencing children), it still is a great compilation of research about us as we age.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]

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

[Sephy Hallow]

Read for my Intro to Lifespan Development class. While some information is really useful (references to studies and theorists), much of the development beyond childhood is pretty straightforward stuff (e.g. early adulthood often consists of building a career, finding a life partner, and starting a family). Since I am familiar with the social aspects of life progression, a lot of this information was moot, and the tone felt about right for high-schoolers -- not a second year undergraduate psychology course.

[Tyler]

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]

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

[Melvin Marsh]

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]

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]

Great for school - well written

[Brandie White]

This was for school lol

[erin]

most of this is just common sense

[Mark Schlatter]

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.