"Interactive Turning Points in Child Development"! Found on the Online Learning Centre, and tied to the 'Turning Points' tables within the text, this chronological summary illustrates a child's typical skills and abilities in relation to age. The interactivity of this dynamic online feature promotes a deeper understanding of this process and aids in student preparation for upcoming assessments.
The material on the SELF is integrated throughout the text rather than devoting a separate chapter to the concept.
Questions For Thought and Discussion: Located at the end of various concepts, these questions promote learning, by helping students think critically about the material presented in the chapter, as opposed to simply memorizing content.
Revised chapters (9-10) on cognitive development reorganize and strengthen the presentation of Piaget, Vygotsky, and information processing. Chapter 10 is now devoted to information processing theory and the associated research evidence.
Weblinks: Located in the margins of the text, these provide hyperlinks to specific URLs in the Online Learning Centre. These links allow the student (reader) to explore additional material from the Internet. These links are regularly updated to provide students with uncomplicated access to a wealth of current and relevant online recourses.
Spotlight on Canadian Research: The most distinguishing feature is the inclusion of work by Canadian researchers, as well as research about Canadians themselves.
Add the Internet to your course - PowerWeb includes current articles, curriculum-based materials, weekly updates with assessment, informative and timely world news, refereed Web links, research tools, student study tools, interactive exercises, and much more
Three Thematic Boxes: Child Psychology in Action, Perspectives in Diversity, and Risk & Resilience!
Topically organized around types of development, including topics such as cognition, intelligence, language, genetics, gender, and moral development.
Multiple Theoretical Viewpoints are included, including increased coverage of sociocultural perspective and dynamic systems theory.
Authors are world-renowned scholars and their awareness of the latest research is reflected in the text!
Key Terms and Margin Glossary: All key terms have been carefully reviewed for their usefulness and significance, and new terms crucial to students' learning of new material have been added.
Chapter Outlines and Summaries: The chapter outlines facilitate students' survey of a chapter's contents and the comprehensive, bulleted summaries reiterate the chapter's key concepts and main ideas.
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