Human Development

Inter-disciplinary, cross-cultural, and multifaceted, VanderZanden incorporates a wide array of contexts to make sense of the complex nature of Human Development and is our multidisciplinary text for the human development course. Applications to health care, social work, and education make this a popular choice for schools who offer the course to a variety of majors. Instructional design techniques from cognitive psychology were used to design the pedagogical framework.Updated research citations to reflect the latest discoveries in the field. These updates were done within pages so that instructors wonĹźt have to change their notes, the page numbers remain the same.Interactive CD ROM provides students with a series of video scenarios to help them apply the concepts of human development to their lives. The CD also features interactive study tools.Box feature "Information you can Use" includes lists of resources, self-assessments and other practical information to be used in everyday life situations, for example see Ch 5 Reducing Retardation Rates and Boosting Babies' Brains, Ch 6 Choosing a Child Care Provider, Ch 8 Parental/Caretaker Assessment of Normal Three-Year-Old Development, Ch 10 Helping Children Cope with Disaster and Fear, and Ch 16 Adaptation in Stepfamilies."Human Diversity" box feature focuses on development from across the life-span from a cross-cultural view.Improved design and several new pedagogy throughout including critical thinking questions, review questions after key sections, web references at end of chapter, numbered and bulleted review lists, key terms, and glossary.Critical thinking questions begin each chapter, are creative, and serve as advance organizers. They pique the students' interest and motivation to read the chapter and can be used as discussion starters or for essays.New and improved pedagogical system to improve reader comprehension, including: pre- and post-chapter organizers, in-chapter questions and summaries, bolded key terms, use of white space, critical thinking questions, careful graphic placement and callouts, glossary, chunking of information for ease of learning, thought-provoking discussion questions, clear headings, an effective color scheme that minimizes eye fatigue and directs the readerĹźs attention to relevant concepts and facts in a coherent and consistent fashion.