John W. Santrock - ISE A Topical Approach to Lifespan Development (ISE HED B&B PSYCHOLOGY)

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A TOPICAL APPROACH TO LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT

Tenth Edition

JOHN W. SANTROCK

University of Texas at Dallas

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A TOPICAL APPROACH TO LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT

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John W. Santrock

John Santrock received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1973. He taught at the University of Charleston and the University of Georgia before joining the program in Psychology in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he currently teaches a number of undergraduate courses and has received the Universitys Effective Teaching Award.

John Santrock (back row middle) with the 2015 recipients of the Santrock Travel Scholarship Award in developmental psychology. Created by Dr. Santrock, this annual award provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to attend a professional meeting. A number of the students shown here attended the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.

Courtesy of Jessica Serna

John has been a member of the editorial boards of Child Development and Developmental Psychology. His research on father custody is widely cited and used in expert witness testimony to promote flexibility and alternative considerations in custody disputes. He also has conducted research on childrens self-control. John has authored these exceptional McGraw-Hill texts: Psychology (7th edition), Children (14th edition), Child Development (14th edition), Adolescence (17th edition), Life-Span Development (17th edition), and Educational Psychology (6th edition).

For many years, John was involved in tennis as a player, teaching professional, and a coach of professional tennis players. As an undergraduate, he was a member of the University of Miami (FL) tennis team that still holds the record for most consecutive wins (137) in any NCAA Division I sport. John has been married for four decades to his wife, Mary Jo, who created and directed the first middle school program for children with learning disabilities and behavioral disorders in the Clarke County Schools in Athens, Georgia, when she was a professor at the University of Georgia. More recently, Mary Jo has worked as a Realtor. He has two daughtersTracy and Jenniferboth of whom are Realtors after long careers in technology marketing and medical sales, respectively. In 2016, Jennifer became only the fifth female to have been inducted into the SMU Sports Hall of Fame. He has one granddaughter, Jordan, age 25, who completed her masters degree from the Cox School of Business at SMU and currently works for Ernst & Young, and two grandsonsthe Belluci brothers: Alex, age 14, and Luke, age 13. In the last decade, John also has spent time painting expressionist art.

With special appreciation to my mother, Ruth Santrock, and my father, John Santrock.

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Life-span development has become an enormous, complex field, and no single author, or even several authors, can possibly keep up with all of the rapidly changing content in the many periods and different areas in this field. To solve this problem, author John Santrock has sought the input of leading experts about content in a number of areas of life-span development. These experts have provided detailed evaluations and recommendations in their area(s) of expertise.

The following individuals were among those who served as expert consultants for one or more of the previous editions of this text:

• Karen Adolph

• David Almeida

• Karlene Ball

• John Bates

• Martha Ann Bell

• Jay Belsky

• James Birren

• Kirby Deater-Deckard

• Susanne Denham

• James Garbarino

• Linda George

• Gilbert Gottlieb

• Elena Grigorenko

• Scott Hofer

• William Hoyer

• Janet Shibley Hyde

• Rachel Keen

• Jennifer Lansford