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MindTap Psychology, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Cavanaugh/Blanchard-Fields' Adult Development and Aging, 7th Edition

John C. Cavanaugh, Fredda Blanchard-Fields

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MindTap Psychology, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Cavanaugh/Blanchard-Fields' Adult Development and Aging 7th Edition by John C. Cavanaugh/Fredda Blanchard-Fields

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MindTap Psychology for Cavanaugh/Blanchard-Fields' Adult Development and Aging, 7th Edition is the digital learning solution that powers students from memorization to mastery. It gives you complete control of your course\u2014to provide engaging content, to challenge every individual, and to build their confidence. Empower students to accelerate their progress with MindTap. MindTap: Powered by You. MindTap gives you complete ownership of content. Mastery Training in every chapter lets students to practice at their own pace and uses distributive practice to ensure students truly learn important concepts and key terms rather than simply memorizing them. Assign Investigate Development allows students to analyze various aspects of the life span and uses presented research and evidence to make decisions about outcome. Customize the syllabi, emphasize key topics, and add your own material.

Meet the Authors

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John C. Cavanaugh

John C. Cavanaugh is Senior Consultant at Pathseekers II, Inc. He is former president and CEO of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, Chancellor Emeritus of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, and former president of the University of West Florida. A researcher and teacher of adult development and aging for more four decades, he has published about 100 articles and chapters and authored, coauthored, or coedited 24 books on aging, information technology, and higher education policy. He is a past president of Division 20 (Adult Development and Aging) of the American Psychological Association (APA) and is a fellow of APA (Divisions 1, 2, 3, and 20) and the Gerontological Society of America, and a charter fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He has held numerous leadership positions in these associations, including chair of the Committee on Aging for APA. He has served on numerous state and national committees for aging-related and higher education organizations. He also serves on the Yellowstone Forever National Advisory Council. John is a devoted fan of “Star Trek” and a serious traveler, photographer, backpacker, cook, and chocoholic. He is married to Dr. Christine K. Cavanaugh, with whom he writes, co-teaches, and learns something new each day.

Fredda Blanchard-Fields

Fredda Blanchard-Fields, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the department at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her current research interests include social cognition in adulthood and aging as well as everyday problem solving and emotion regulation from adolescence through older adulthood. She has been published in Psychology and Aging, Developmental Psychology, Current Directions in Psychological Science, and other journals. She is a fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the Gerontological Society of America and a member of the American Psychological Society, the Society for Research and Child Development, and the Psychonomics Society.

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MindTap helps streamline your workflow with carefully curated content and a unique set of tools saving you valuable time in your course preparations. In addition, automatically grades assignments and quizzes while also providing students with instant feedback on their work.
Provide students with organizational and study tools designed to better manage their limited time, allowing them to complete assignments whenever and wherever they are ready to learn.
Save students money in their course materials with a single destination that reflects exactly what’s important to you, the instructor.
Track students in real time with the Progress app adjust the course as needed based analytics of interactivity in the course.
With the MindTap Mobile App, you can keep your students informed of assignments, course due dates, or any changes to your course while also arming them with on-the-go study tools like flashcards and quizzing.
Build and personalize your course by integrating your own content into the MindTap Reader using your own documents or pull from sources like RSS feeds, YouTube videos, websites, Google Docs and more. Control what content students see and when they see it with a learning path that can be used as-is or matched to your syllabus exactly.
Empower students with the information to know where they stand at all times—both individually and compared to the highest performers in class within the student view of the Progress App.
Engage students with course material specially customized for them by you streamlined in one proven, easy-to-use interface.
StudyHub is one-stop-studying tool that allows you to deliver important information and empowers your students to personalize their experience. Share content from the MindTap Reader and create notes and study guides to help students focus and succeed.
The Message Center app helps you to quickly and easily contact students directly from the MindTap platform. Any message posted in the Message Center is communicated directly to each student enrolled in the course via the communication medium designated by the student.

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LEARNING PATH:

Truth or Fiction. Students can answer two low-stakes, true-or-false questions to get a sense of what they may already know and what they will learn about in the upcoming chapter.

Mastery Training. Powered by Cerego, this study tool allows students to become familiar with topics and key terms they will encounter in the chapter. Students can study at their own pace and through distributed practice, learn rather than memorize these important concepts.

eBook for Adult Development and Aging, 7th Edition. The acclaimed MindTap Reader boasts a multimedia rich experience with tagged note-taking, highlighting and bookmarking for easy study guide creation.

Investigate Development. Students have the opportunity to analyze various aspects of the life span, by studying presented research and evidence in order to make decisions about the outcome in these cases. They must also defend their decision citing information from the case.

Chapter Test. Students can test their knowledge of each chapter with this 15-question multiple-choice practice test.

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