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Child Development, Seventh Edition offers students a balanced, up-to-date overview of developmental theory and research with a focus on application to students'personal lives and future careers. Organized chronologically, the text features a variety of student-focused tools that make the study of development interesting and engaging. Author Robert Feldman's emphasis on practical, take-home information provides students with knowledge they can use during the course and beyond.The text's chapter openers and epilogues have been replaced or updated, to better introducing students to the real-world implications of the chapter topic.Each chapter begins with a short vignette, describing an individual or situation that is relevant to the basic developmental issues being addressed in the chapter.Each chapter concludes with a brief epilogue that includes critical thinking questions relating to the prologue at the opening of the chapter.Coverage of important issues, such as behavioral genetics, brain development, evolutionary perspectives, and social networking.An increased emphasis on the findings of neuroscientists and brain scan research, reflecting advances in the field.Changes relating to psychological disorders reflecting the publication of DSM-5.Child Development, Seventh Edition includes new topics in every chapter.About the AuthorRobert S. Feldman is Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Deputy Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A recipient of the College Distinguished Teacher Award, he teaches classes ranging in size from 10 to nearly 500 students. During the course of more than two decades as a college instructor, he has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses at Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, and Virginia Commonwealth University in addition to the University of Massachusetts Amherst.A Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science, Professor Feldman received a B.A. with High Honors from Wesleyan University. He has an MS and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.