OpenStax recently announced the availability of Lifespan Development, a text intended to meet the needs of faculty teaching C-ID PSY 180, Introduction to Lifespan Psychology. Although ancillary development is still in process, the complete text is available for your consideration.
Category: PSY 180
This age-based approach textbook was written by Martha Lally and Suzanne Valentine-French and was funded by a grant from the College of Lake County Foundation and supported by the Business and Social Sciences Division. Chapter narration files (Andrea Pantoja Garvey, 2022) (CC BY-NC-SA) are available in Canvas Commons. An adaptation available on the Libretexts campus shelf focuses …
Students learn the stages of the human life span: prenatal, infancy, toddlerhood, middle childhood, adolescence, adulthood, late adulthood, and death/dying. For each stage of the life span, students examine cognitive, language, emotional, social, personality, and physical development. In addition, students explore the procedures used to conduct research about human development.Comment: This text, based on Lifespan …
Human Growth and Development (Newton, 2022) – Pressbooks (CC BY)Read More »
Downloadable and viewable at the site. Age-based approach textbook for lifespan developmental psychology course, updated summer 2020. Google slides (CC BY-NC-SA) developed by Fernando Romero are available.
Includes: PowerPoint Slides, Test Bank, and Instructor Manual (Free registration and/or login required for all). This appears to be a complete book (although it does not appear to have a link that will facilitate download or printing). In addition to the faculty resources (which you can request access to), there are pre-recorded lectures and study …
Human Growth and Development Question Library (Cotter, Fisk and Grissett, 2018) – Galileo (CC BY-SA)
This set of questions for use with quizzes and tests was created under a Round Four ALG Textbook Transformation Grant with an accompanying PowerPoint lecture set. The course uses the free and open Human Development sections of Boundless Psychology.
Instructor resources – discussion questions, video links. Test bank available upon request