Reviews
Praise for Child Development, 8/e "I remember having Laura Berk's text on Child Development in my own undergraduate class. I thoroughly enjoyed the text then, walking away with a deeper appreciation of child development. Reading the latest version just confirms my original view of the text, and having devoted my graduate and professional life to the study of developmental issues, I find the text to be nuanced, engaging and stimulating." -Geoff Navara,Trent University, Canada "This text is my favorite in the field and I plan to continue to use it. The book is current, accurate, comprehensive, balanced, and well written." -Rebecca Bigler, University of Texas at Austin "…I enjoy teaching with this book….I have used this textbook for many years and find the coverage most appropriate, including the balance between theory, research, and practical issues." -Cecilia Wainryb, University of Utah "The overall organization and coverage of Berk's text are excellent. The chapters cohere and interweave quite nicely. Each chapter opens with an appealing, almost personal invitation to explore that chapter's content. I like all the features used throughout the text. The text is multicultural without losing sight of the universals in child development. Each edition of Child Development features cutting-edge material." - John Gibbs, Ohio State University "I would adopt this textbook and advocate its adoption to colleagues." -Tracy Vaillancourt,McMaster University, Canada "I think Berk's book offers our professors and students the most comprehensive coverage of child development…This book well reflects Dr. Berk's scholarship. It covers the most important issues, trends and cutting-edge topics in the field of child development…" -Wenfan Yan,Indiana University of Pennsylvania "Berk has a long-standing reputation as a strong text for developmental courses, students always rate it highly, and the text and graphics are a pleasure to read and view." -Doug Symons, Acadia University, Canada "This is a great book from which to teach…[it] covers a great deal of territory and is very comprehensive. .. the material is well organized and I like the developmental approach that is taken within each of the main topics. Berk has addressed the most important issues, trends and cutting edge topics very well… The visuals in the text are clear, appropriate, informative, and appealing. … The material is presented at an appropriate reading level; it is interesting, clear and well organized." - Nina Howe, Concordia University, Canada "Berk has always done an admirable job of covering the essentials and adhering to the latest research on each and every topic…I have always been impressed with Dr. Berk's choices for coverage… I really like how the text is organized with a diverse array of things to appeal to the distracted unde
Table of Content
I. THEORY AND RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT.1. History, Theory, and Applied Directions.2. Research Strategies.II. FOUNDATIONS OF DEVELOPMENT.3. Biological Foundations, Prenatal Development, and Birth.4. Infancy: Early Learning, Motor Skills, and Perceptual Capacities.5. Physical Growth.III. COGNITIVE AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT.6. Cognitive Development: Piagetian, Core Knowledge, and Vygotskian Perspectives.7. Cognitive Development: An Information-Processing Perspective.8. Intelligence.9. Language Development.IV. PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT.10. Emotional Development.11. Self and Social Understanding.12. Moral Development.13. Development of Sex Differences and Gender Roles.V. CONTEXTS FOR DEVELOPMENT.14. The Family.15. Peers, Media, and Schooling.
