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 | | Adult Development and Aging by William Hoyer, Paul Roodin ISBN-10: 9780073128542 ISBN-10: 0-07-312854-6 ISBN-13: 9780073128542 ISBN-13: 978-0-07-312854-2 Hardcover 2008-07-30 McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Adult Development and Aging offers professors and students a clear, comprehensive and current account of the salient issues and concerns that dominate the field of adult development. Hoyer and Roodin employ an interdisciplinary, process oriented perspective to show students the past, present, and future of our understanding and research in adult development. In this thoroughly-revised new edition, Hoyer and Roodin continue to provide cutting edge material in an accessible manner for undergraduates. With a new theme of developmental bioculturalism running throughout, the authors also present the most balanced and comprehensive coverage of biological, health, cognitive, and social areas. | ||
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If you have a choice, get a different textbook. As a third year Psychology student, I've read about 25 college textbooks so far. This one is among the worst. As mentioned by another reviewer, the editing is garbage. For example, in the first chapter, the word "particular" is used 16 times on three pages, and the word "interplay" is used 10+ times. In fact, a single sentence had "particular" written in it three times... It truly seems like the author is trying to sound smart, and in doing so, is sacrificing precious coherency. What could be an easy read in terms of content, is made that much harder through redundancy/usage of complicated words(over and over and over again). It's not the worst book I've read, but it'll make your life as a student that much harder(especially if you're taking 16 upper division units like myself.) | ||
WARNING - this book is poorly edited! I just taught an undergraduate class using this book and I would NOT recommend it to other instructors. It looked good when I decided to adopt it for my class because it integrates a lot of cutting edge research, but teaching with it is a mess because it is so poorly edited. Students thought it was wordy and did not clearly state the most important findings. They got very confused while studying for tests. Core theories such as socioemotional selectivity theory or selective optimization with compensation are briefly mentioned at multiple locations but never discussed in detail. In several cases, definitions in the glossary are inconsistent with those in the text (e.g., "longevity"). Sections of the book contradict each other. At least one graph is duplicated and the legend of some graphs contradicts the findings shown in the figure itself (see, for example Box Figure 10.2a). Also, some terms are just plain wrong. For example, Super's penultimate stage of career development is called "deceleration" not "declaration" (page 338). The whole chapter on mental health is a mess. It relies a lot on a study by Kessler et al, examining lifetime prevalence of mental disorders. Lifetime prevalence is not that interesting for life-span development. It would have been much more helpful to have data on one-year prevalence. Also, some sections of that chapter seem out of place (e.g. the paragraph on personality risk and mental health on page 137). Also, I was sorely missing a chapter on research methods and had to make up my own material to cover that important topic. Finally, don't bother downloading the PPT slides the publishers provide for instructors. They are not very helpful (almost no graphs, just a bland summary of the content) Overall, a nice attempt at integrating up-to-date research, but the poor editing makes it difficult to work with. | ||
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Adult Development and Aging Adult Development and Aging: WITH Powerweb So far this textbook has been very informatiive in understanding the development of the aging population. The book emphasis aging is more than chronological but a lifestyle. I would recommend this book to anyone who have an interest in social services, health, geriatrics, human behaviors or would like to understand what to expect out of your own life in regards to aging. | ||
The 4th edition is a good revision of a good Adulthood text. Here we have a text that was already very good. This edition is a thorough review of major contemporary approaches to adult development. As an instructor I tend to favor a contextual lifespan approach and I found the treatment of contextual lifespan psychology to be more than adequate. The chapter organization is good and the review questions at the end of each chapter are very useful in the course. My students are college juniors and seniors, and they find it easy to read. I tend to avoid texts that don't do an adequate job of presenting research. This text has a sound introduction to current research in the field, and is an excellent choice for me. Instructors looking for a good presentation of work on cognition in Adulthood will find the associated chapters useful as both a text and reference material to keep on hand for other courses, such as a 'Lifespan Psychology' course. The new edition includes more on women, cross-cultural aging, personality and clinical aspects of aging, grandparenting, as well as much new material on aging and adaptation. I would certainly recommend this book for any solid college level course on Adulthood. Suzanne Prescott, PhD Governors State University University Park, IL. USA | ||