Customer Reviews

Life-Span Development, 9e with Student CD and PowerWeb

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I couldn't agree more that this text is, to put it kindly, sketchy. I don't know what level it is meant for, but I'm using it in graduate school, and frankly, it isn't telling me anything I didn't learn back in Intro to Psych 101. It also appears very choppy within sections and you can tell where updates were stuck in and not well-integrated. (I always love the shoehorned-in references to women or minorities, not just a crime of this book, however.) It's also poorly written in spots, as I'm reading about something I already know and the explanation is about as clear as mud. I feel sorry for people who haven't learned some of the material elsewhere. As I will be facing this material on a licensing exam, I am in the market for another book - one that might teach me something I didn't learn in high school/freshman year in college.

This book is not the newest release, but there really aren't that many differences between the older version and the newer release. The biggest change is that two of the chapters have been combined into one in the newer book. Altogether it really contains the same information.

I found the book to be a wonderful resource, and it is filled with an abundance of significant information. The book also presents a great understanding of lifespan development and articulates the knowledge in a clear way. College students should find it an easy read, along with many nice pictures and helpful tables.

This book describes the very essence of life in a definite and distinctive way. There are no underlying factors or confusing verbage. The reader can simply investigate a topic of interest while receiving the information in its complete totality.

The format of this book is simply wonderful. Santrock does an excellent job in allowing the reader to not only expand upon early life-span development . . . But he also introduces the reader to the various theories that helped shaped life-span development. In this book you learn of Vygotsky, Erickson, and Piaget and many, many others.

I personally found this book to be of great help during my graduate studies. It provided me with practically everything that I needed on the subject of "development" and was a #1 source of reference in all practicums and papers.

I am exceedingly happy that this book has renewed another edition and look forward to adding this updated version to my already sprawling collection.

The book is easy to read. The author does not assume that you have prior knowledge about development stages and theories that accompany the stages. The author also adds real life examples of how these stages may look in life in many different cultures. The chapters build on each other. The author does a great job of reveiwing key concepts from previous chapters as they relate to the current chapter.

The CD had been helpful in taking the reading materials to the next level of understanding.

There is no better book to be used for Developmental Psychology than this one. It not only provides the foundation of introductory psychology, but goes well into detail with all aspects of lifespan development. The material is extremely organized and chronological, making it very simple to use for reference and in the classroom. Highly recommended for all psychology students and instructors.

I have an online class which requires the 12th edition of this book. Although the newer edition has moved things around a bit, the information is the same. There is no good reason to spend four to five times the amount of an older version on recent editions when the content is the same.

This book is loaded with spelling errors and editing errors. I am at pg. 54 in my reading and I have already found 5 errors. I cannot comprehend people who get paid thousands upon thousands of dollars to edit a COLLEGE text book and they cannot do their jobs. I am to the point now where I am reading about Evolutionary Developmental Psychology and the picture of the monkey is overlapping some of the text in the book. How is anyone supposed to study? Its down right annoying.

As others have stated, this book is very broad on all topics. It's and introduction to psychology book, which is why I am very dissapointed to be using it at this level! I felt some of the studies they refference may have been warped, to sound how they wanted it to sound. I was also extremely dissapointed with how poorly they covered controversial topics. The book was obviously biased (see the abortion chapter)and didn't teach me anything I didn't already know. It comes with a cd, which I couldn't get to work on any of my computers.

This would be a good book for intro Psych classes.

Good book as far as text books go. I have found that some of the words are missing. They just did not get printed. So I have been having to "fill in the blanks", other than that it is good.