Customer Reviews

Infants, Children, and Adolescents (5th Edition) (MyDevelopmentLab Series)

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As a Forensic Psychologist I use this text and recommend it to clients to better understand and appreciate the psycho-developmental needs of their children. Of particular interest to most of those parents are the diverse tables which clarify the expected and unique behaviors of children by age group. This provides those parents with a guide book to assist them in child rearing through age 18. That reference material not only facilitates the parent's understanding of the needs of the child, but also better prepares more effective parenting skills and preparation for developmental issues which are significant in custody and visitation (or access) legal questions. Parents have reported developing a feeling of confidence since they are using scientific data in making parenting decisiions. Legal authorities -- judges and attorneys -- have felt more confident in their recommendations, opinions, and decisions which are based upon evidence. -- Swen Helge, Ph.D.

The book is well written and very interesting. I don't mind reading it unlike other textbooks. Was a little nervous about it not getting it in the mail before my class started, but it did get shipped and delivered right on time.

I bought this book for a class; psychology is something I dread and have a difficult time reading psych textbooks. This book, however, is easy to read. I like the stories at beginning of each chapter; it sets up what the author will be discussing throughout the chapter nicely.

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I love how the book divides the development of human beings by age, physical development, socio-emotional development, and cognitive development. I also love how the important words are highlighted.

A college student's worst nightmare. Includes way too many personal perspectives, and oh yeah, way too verbose. Get a textbook written by a guy, students. Unless you want to hear random stories about 10000 different random people.

Book was fun and interesting to read. Had easy to read charts and was informative. Highly Recommended!

This book is a really good read, does well with the expansion on child psychology, and theories. Great text but is more along the serious side of learning about these children and the effects of the world around them. A little less challenging then a chemistry book but you really have to pay attention. Well written overall.

This book teaches the very basic fundamental psychological knowledge that we have of children. I would like to see more information processing views portrayed but its a decent text book.

This textbook contains extremely dense chapters that reference so many different views, and never really holds to a specific perspective. The reader is often left confused as to what to really take away from each chapter. It spends an abundance of time on infant development and very little time truly drawing any connection to something resembling Psychology, or something that will be useful to a Psychology major. It might be useful for someone planning to go into early childhood education, but Psychology in this content is truly lacking; and combined with the extremely long chapters that often flip-flop between other people's takes, you never really comprehend what you are supposed to truly gain from the chapter. By each chapter's end, you find yourself cheated of time and no more knowledgeable then when you began. I'm still not sure what concepts and perspectives I was supposed to take away from this textbook, and I was looking forward to this course.

I needed this book for my child development class in college. This textbook isn't dry like others, as it has many interesting facts and seems to move along in a great manner. The chapters can seem to be an overwhelming length at times (up to 50 pages a chapter), but each chapter has so much information in it. I'm learning a great deal about child development from this class and can honestly say that I like this book.