Reviews for Abnormal child psychology

The average rating for Abnormal child psychology based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-12-17 00:00:00 Travis Sprague This was not a particularly memorable read, and I had to go back to the book a final time (I doubt I'll revisit this often) to check my notes. Dense but easily readable by (probably) older high-school students, this is a pretty run-of-the-mill textbook: Each page is packed to the brim with bicolumnal, small, serif text and occasionally smattered by graphs and photos and panels inviting "a closer look" in, ironically, even smaller font sizes. The writers were pretty tone-deaf and/or ignorant when it came to reporting on gender differences; clearly, the authorship that won out for this textbook was not trained in feminist theory, which is painfully typical. A specific example is found early in the book, around page 20, wherein they talk about propensities for hostile aggression in male children and cunning, passive aggressive sabotage in female children and try to explain this with evolutionary psychology (nUrtUrAnCe tHo) or "but why could this be???", as if there hasn't been [likely if not more than] hundreds of feminist philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, and scientists in myriad fields who have identified gender socialization and patriarchy more generally as the prevailing etiology for sex differences. But, overall, it was okay. I did learn a decent amount.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-10-18 00:00:00 Mylon Knaus TONS of typos. I think someone went to print too soon. As far as text books go the information is more thorough than some. If you can get past the typos. It is not just one or two words. There is grammatical errors, lack of capitalization, periods to end sentences. I'm a bit confused why a publisher let it go to print this way.