Not that great...

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	• The Developing Person Through the Life Span Kathleen Stassen Berger Worth Publishers, 2004 - 667 pages average customer review:based on 22 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Not that great...

I was truly looking forward to my Life span and Development class until I looked at this book. Yes, it is helpful in that it has important terms on the margins. However, many times is does not into enough detail with a lot of psych issues. There are little blurbs or paragraphs about some things, but it mainly a repetiton of theories (Biosocial, Psychoanalytic, Behaviorist, Cognitive...) from Intro to Psych. It does not get into specifics about anything. The book can also be confusing in how it presents the information. I am alarmed by how very narrow minded the author(s) of the book are about psychology in different cultures. Most of the chapters have little (if nothing at all) about cultural differences in childrearing, dicipline technniques, nutrition, aging, etc. It is all based on American ideals of how kids should be raised and what it is to be normal. Where are the other viewpoints? I am very disappointed with this book and the class in general. I was looking forward to so much more.

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Fantastic!

This was a great textbook...maybe the best I've used yet. I was looking forward to my human development class anyway but this book made it even better. It was well written, easy to read, excellent anecdotes and side stories that you could read or save for later. It gave great ideas for writing papers and was extremely well organized. I loved it and think that anyone who is interested in human development (class or no class) should read this text.