Experience Human Development will help the students experience the human side of development by exposing them to culture and diversity, immersing them in practical application, and helping them study smarter through personalized learning and reporting. personalized learning and reporting. The book takes a practical approach to research and recognizes that just as people develop in their own way, the students also learn in their own ways. Salient Features: 1. Human development is an ever-evolving process and with this book the students will be able to understand this process better 2. The book talks about each stage of life and also about how each stage affects us, and how to cope with the issues that arises 3. The book also deals with the problems that we might face in various stages of our lives long-term effects of those issues and how to deal with them 4. The psychosocial development that takes place in each stage and how various factors influence it is thoroughly discussed 5. The physical and cognitive developments that happen throughout our life and how different factors affect it is talked about in great detail 6. Theory and research are given great importance in this edition with revised and updated research cases provided in the required chapters 7. The book also talks about how to deal with death and bereavement and how culture and other factors affect how we react 8. New content added to chapters wherever required 9. Updated statistics on not just the newly added content but also the existing content About the Author As a professor, Diane E. Papalia taught thousands of undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her bachelors degree, majoring in Psychology, from Vassar College and both her masters degree in Child Development and Family Relations and her Ph.D. in Lifespan Developmental Psychology from West Virginia University. She has published numerous articles in such professional journals as Human Development, International Journal of Aging and Human Development, Sex Roles, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, and Journal of Gerontology. Most of these papers have dealt with her major research focus, cognitive development from childhood through old age. She is especially interested in intelligence in old age and factors that contribute to the maintenance of intellectual functioning in late adulthood. She is a Fellow in the Gerontological Society of America. She is the coauthor of Human Development now in its 11th edition, with Sally Wendkos Olds and Ruth Duskin Feldman, of Adult Development and Aging, now in its 3rd edition, with Harvey L. Sterns, Ruth Duskin Feldman, and Cameron J. Camp, and of Child Development: A Topical Approach with Dana Gross and Ruth Duskin Feldman. Gabriela Alicia Martorell was born in Seattle, Washington, but moved as a toddler to Guatemala. At eight, she returned to the United States and lived in Northern California until leaving for her undergraduate training at the University of California, Davis. After obtaining her bachelors degree in Psychology, she earned her Ph.D. in Developmental and Evolutionary Psychology with an interdisciplinary emphasis in Human Development from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She now works as a Full Professor of Psychology at Virginia Wesleyan University and serves as the chair of the Institutional Review Board. Gabi maintains an active teaching schedule and teaches courses in Introductory Psychology, Lifespan Human Development, Infant Development, Child Development, Adolescent Development, Culture and Development, Evolutionary Psychology, Research Methods, Original Research Project, and Capstone community-based learning courses in Early Childhood Education and Adulthood and Aging. She is committed to teaching, mentoring, and advising. She recently concluded a 5-year longitudinal National Science Foundation grant focused on the retention of higher education students from trad