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John W. Santrock

Autor/a de Life-Span Development

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John W. Santrock taught at the University of Charleston and the University of Georgia before joining the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Obres de John W. Santrock

Life-Span Development (1989) 248 exemplars
Adolescence (1987) 187 exemplars
Children (1988) 73 exemplars
Educational Psychology (2001) 66 exemplars
Psychology (1996) 27 exemplars
Psychology: Essentials 2 (2002) 14 exemplars
Psychology Brief (1999) 9 exemplars
Psicologia De La Educacion (2002) 5 exemplars
Yaşam Boyu Gelişim (2012) 3 exemplars
Educational psychology. 7th ed (2020) 2 exemplars
Psychology: Custom (1997) 2 exemplars
LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENT >CUSTOM (2013) 1 exemplars
Children (14TH ED.) (2018) 1 exemplars
Psychology, 7th Edition (1997) 1 exemplars
Psychology, Sixth Edition (2000) 1 exemplars
Connections to college success (2006) 1 exemplars
Psychology Fourth Edition (1994) 1 exemplars
Psychology Custom Text (1997) 1 exemplars
Psicologia Educacional (2009) 1 exemplars
PSICOLOGIA DE LA EDUCACION (2013) 1 exemplars
Psychology (7e) 1 exemplars

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I guess I would call this pure academic psychology, (very pure, very delicate), and although certainly it’s a sort of general psychology like a cognitive book, it’s clearly very different from Albert Ellis and the Quest Not To Drill A Hole In One’s Head For Whatever Reason, and obvs (obvs!) it’s not spiritual psychology, which John here would probably view as at least as different a subject (if not more so) than other random things like history, opera, and astronomy—and in a context where different things aren’t artistically linked but are truly separate and random.

John wouldn’t yell or get angry or even mock me necessarily if I wrote one of my regular kind of reviews, but he would stay silent and be uncomfortable; he would arch his brows in skepticism, confusion, and to distance. I did come across some nice things to know in this book and clearly there is some substance and order to it; it’s not the same as being locked in with the trivia game show, you know; it’s not trivial. But John wouldn’t appreciate one of my reviews, you know. It is a sort of picture, but one made up of multitudes of multitudes of infinitesimal points, so isolating one of them to talk about, or giving an impression of the whole based on some one or some few, to give meaning, despite the somewhat ordered if neutral picture of a sort of whole, would only bring a grimace of social pain to John’s face.

Like this. 🤐

So, whatever we cannot talk about, as the famous modern philosopher once said.

…. Or, mostly:

“The infant moves to perceive and perceives to move.” I don’t know how many times I could be myself and quote lines like that, but I felt like if I did it would seem condescending or whatever, so I’ll just say this and then hopefully shut up: This is psychology as a science in the technical sense, and if the conflict between a geologist and a physicist, or indeed between the last synthesizer and the latest analyst, isn’t as scary-movie sexy as the conflict between a Catholic and a Calvinist, it’s really just as fragmented. I don’t think I’ll read more psychology as technical as this, although I’m glad I did it once—once, after all, in a different age of the world, I actually got perfect class credit for knowing things like this, although of course it was all an act.

…. Of course, there are times when the experts are closer to the truth than the public, for example in the public’s versus the expert’s ideas about forms of punishment that can get out of control, or be shaming/rejecting, like physical punishment. (Incidentally, if you showed my father the way he sometimes acts and the expert’s correct way in a movie, he would probably identify the expert-father as the “good white man” (not in so many words) or whatever, and forcefully reject the cipher for himself. If he ever caught himself doing whatever, afterwards, it would be like, “Well, I always knew I was a bad boy…. At least I was right about Something!”. And the actions of his father, and my mother—and even me!—it’s the third factor, right: our whole crummy family. And a loyalty to that can develop—a false loyalty, and obvs a false rejecting.) Maybe people would trust the experts more about things like that if they didn’t have the reputation for being un-sporty, anti-religious, hyper-rational, anti-popular. Some balancing of the masculinity/femininity imbalance is called for though, and it’s usually unpopular. There’s also the aspect where people just are less likely to trust those damn experts when things are changing, no matter what they say or why.

…. But they should probably study the Enneagram or something, or at least stop assuming (colored italics) intuitional inferiority (colored italics), (British accent) the justified belief that intuitive knowing is the mark of the inferior man. (/end accent). They’d learn about the whole connection between Knowledge Alone and being a hard-ass, you know. They NEVER cite popular books, EXCEPT FOR “Children Are Stupid, Tell Them So: Opposing the Cult of Non-Toxic Feelings in Our Schools” (Hard-Ass Press, 1985).

I’m weird, too, though: sometimes I read something because I like it, true; other times because I used to like it and I’m starting to dis-align: I’m saying goodbye. 😿

…. So Five goes to Eight, and Eight goes to Two: there’s that macho ‘inferiority’/insecurity, you know: statistics say that males are more likely than females to poop in their pants, eat shit, and die—throughout the entire lifespan, you know. Ah, I remember macho ‘inferiority’/insecurity well. There was a time I almost believed it, or really did believe it, even though sometimes I was pretending, you know. 😜

Of course, if you actually know something about girls, you know that pain is not this “male thing”, and sometimes—even if not always—girls benefit by hitting that tennis ball really really hard, just as though they Were a boy, you know.

Oh, woe is me! Woe unto us macho kids—the stats are in; we’re doomed! —Talk about not living in the real world.

But it is true that boys have more rigid gender ideas than girls, as a group. THAT is the price we pay, you know, and not the stats about how we’re 5% more likely to poop our pants and then dig it out and eat it, right—throughout the whole life span, like I said.

…. And, yes, I think it’s funny he can report what people said about Kohlberg or whatever his name was—Jonnie says that he’s overly-intellectual—in this hyper-intellectual way so that you can walk away like, Huh. I guess when I read All the books I’ll be able to move to Japan and become a mountain.
John Lennon: Ah, but if it were Japan you’d have to be a Zen mountain; you’d have to pass a test.
—But religion only exists in the old Confederacy; (emphatic) It has nothing! to do with the books.
Paul McCartney: (blows smoke) (he and John laugh)

And how can you even write a book like this without having an opinion? I mean, everyone does, but it’s like he glamours you so you won’t even believe it’s possible.

As for me, I guess old Kohllie wasn’t the worst moral philosopher or whatever he was, (white man, for example), but most of the big name midcentury intellectuals thought that they went to Sun King University and that Louis XIV had appointed them universal regent, you know, and a lot the other people took that at face value, so it stirred up some controversy and opposition, which is natural, you know.

…. Trying to help people and make the world a better place is what the bad men, the men of religion, do; as a Real Psychologist, it’s my job to Know.

I mean, he rattles off these useless facts about our progress in beating useless facts into people, but the vibe I get is:

Cartoon Villain: People who do not Know, will be, Destroyed. (bangs fist on expensive table).

Black Girl From Romance Novel: Bitch, this (censored) not playing. You better, (Black girl), Know, shit, right.

Cartoon Villain: (fuming) That word does not apply to me.

Black Girl: What word, I used more than—oh, you mean, (censored). Yeah, youse a white (censored), but you still a playa, look at all that bling you got on that fancy table you bangin’, and I betcha, that’s not All (Black girl style), you bangin’. You bangin’ those college-educated white chicks, too, getting ‘em to proofread your papers for ya.

Cartoon Villain: (has culture shock/mental breakdown/becomes violent/turns into Jason Bourne) Chee sah! (splits table)

Black Girl: Ah shit; I’m gettin’ outta here.

…. (Prof Playa: The Playa Series; scene in-between sex scenes) (better than you voice) It’s important to beat facts into people and to treat students like garbage to create a new generation of asshole intellectuals and another generation of worker bees alienated from the quest for knowledge. Of course, some see this as a problem, and want reform. Others say, Pussy-ass reformers, ha! Hockey! BOYS’ Hockey! There, I gave you both sides. How fascinating.

So we have a huge problem which wouldn’t go away quickly in the best of circumstances, and we can’t decide whether even trying to fix it is even…. Desirable.

No, that’s not what I said. In life, there are always chess problems to solve, Fascinating chess problems to solve, books and books of chess problems. Nations may rise and fall, empires crumble into dust and masses cry out in vain for bread—but we Will make Progress on these God-Damn Chess Problems, thank You ever so much!

(she rolls her eyes)

(next scene: sex scene)
(Ellie Goulding playing)
“Next thing, we touching; next thing, we touching, and when you look at me it’s like you hit me with lightning” (thrum thrum thrum thrum)

…. 1. It is nice to strategize how to make the school system work better for poor Blacks etc. For example, it would be nice if it were less adversarial, but then you’d have to ditch “For me to have money, you have to fail in life”, and “That’s not science, mommy! That’s poop! Poop!”
2. The US is indeed not such a bad place to be educated sometimes, in certain places; certainly it’s probably in the top third in the world, right—but we’re like, “We could bomb ALL of the other countries, so why is shitty little Finland and weirdo Japan ahead of us?” It’s like, is that how Per Capita things work? Certainly if we did gross numbers, Japan and obvs Finland would be far behind. And basically all of Africa, South America, and much of Asia would be a harder place to go to school, so…. Perfectionism gets us what? Gimme a Her! Gimme a Nea! Gimme a Her….nea! Yay!
3. The blindingly obvs connection is never explicitly made that if Black and poor students did better, then the mystical US Average student would do better. (Frank Fitzgerald’s school district isn’t doing worse than Japan or Finland’s you know.) And the other thing is that there’s a difference between /Honest/ Asian-appreciation, and this Asian fetishism where the BEST and ONLY cross-cultural comparison Western scholars want is with Eastern scholars, you know. NEVER do a Black-Asian cultural study; the game would be over. Do a Finland-Japan cultural study, you know. Gee whiz, why can’t White Americans be more like people from East Asia? Why can’t Anglos be more Anglo than the Anglos themselves, right. —Like the Irish? —No, like the Japs; they don’t have rap over there! (Again, there’s a difference between HONEST Asian-appreciation and Oriental fetishism, you know.) Gosh, can you imagine if someone did a study like, In traditional Hawaiian culture, parents don’t care if kids in Japan can do calculus at four years old better than their kids? It would be like: But we have the military! That means, #1 in everything! Don’t have a better per capita tennis program: or we WILL invade! 😹

…. I really do believe that intellectuals can be sophomores, wise fools: they know everything except how to be happy, and I know that mysticism can sound like fetishism, but—scholars tend to live very much from Five and Six, which is the familiar energy of Britain and Germany, you know; but the world is becoming more American, which is Three, except we assume that that’s plebeian and “that’s not science, mommy: that’s poop!”, you know. But Three is kinda in the middle, it Can go straight back to Six and Germany and fear and philosophy; Or it can go to Nine and love and a country like Hawaii (not legally an independent country; but then neither is England, and obvs both words refer to a culture, right).

And sometimes, you gotta go to love, right. You don’t tell your mother that breakfast and art and socializing aren’t science, you know. You gotta get over, and stop being a sophomore.

…. Of course, it is true that sexually reckless behavior isn’t the best way to try to open the heart, or a painless path to take, and I guess I don’t have to explain this to Johann Heiligstein-Deutschmark, you know; although I wonder. I don’t have to tell him what to SAY. But then, ACTUALLY getting yourself to be the Modest Beauty, you know—although of course, religion typically doesn’t do its job well here, either. Dad and Mom just flip out and shame you, you know.

Obviously the quality of scholarship varies—clearly we don’t need starry-eyes pop Freudianism, you know, “and everybody knows: that everybody’s starry-eyed…. And my body glows!”…. but with biological psychology often you get this faintly sociological quality ironically: information about sexuality from, you guessed it…. The national census!—but sexuality can be a nice thing to study, you know.

…. Ethnicity: something those non-whiteys have to struggle with, right. (Thank God I’m a biological psychologist and culture and whiteness are invisible to me! Huh huh!)

Of course, they want to avoid talking about asymmetrical experiences because it makes people uncomfortable, especially sensitive, entitled people, you know. If you’re not assimilated into the Anglo majority, you’re at best, marginal—like, perhaps, Jewish Jews, if you will—and are possibly regarded with suspicion if not hostility (eg Muslims, people of color). In that context, ethnic pride can be a support. If you’re white, the situation is different. Of course, /guilt/ itself can be counter-productive, and blame, you know: if you won’t go to a church, any church, or even do yoga with Anglos, because you hate white people, or you won’t read a book written before some arbitrary date, no questions asked, or if you hate your boss because he’s white, you know; everyone benefits from being comfortable in their skin. But asking “what about me”, every time someone else doesn’t get a spear in their gut, you know, and asking “what about me”, as though it were Altruism, because it’s What About White People: it’s like, gimme a break; your culture is affirmed. Learn to live with your cultural victory and stop being paranoid, for fuck’s sake, you know.

…. It’s like the false humility “objective” thing, you know; I’m “good”, so “good”, I don’t exist!

—Good things don’t exist?
—That’s right: focus on the problem, motherfuckers!

…. And then the only other thing they know is denial, you know. People love cheese and chocolate, so intellectuals talk about saturated fat, but if a problem exists firmly in the public’s mind, then, just to trip ‘em up and psych ‘em out, they’ll say—no sometimes parents and teenagers get along. But they don’t come up with strategies in a book like this to make your and your teenager’s life better, not really; or at the very least, that’s the least important thing, with the least weight, the least space. This isn’t pop psych, you know!

…. And remember, as you emerge into adulthood, your most pressing goal is to be normal: fuckers who aren’t normal are x10 as likely to ‘esplode into a million pieces, and x9 as likely to die!!!

…. It’s amazing how macho liberals can be, you know: be macho, give advice from somebody else’s research about experiencing flow (pleasure), then go right back to quietly being macho, then get confused that people don’t respect women, you know—after all, research suggests that they’re more macho than men! 😹 That’s the thing about socialists, though: they’re Real Men. Put on that wrestler’s mask and wrestle me, Karl Marx; I know you’re not a little girl who runs a jewelry store! 😸

…. (looks at watch) Okay, now that I spent the first two hours of the lecture talking about how you first learned to say, Cat bat shat—let’s go through dating, too. For example, did you know (obvious thing)?
—What’s this, platitudes? Did we come here for platitudes, honey!
—(she puts her hand on his arm)
—(shrugs) I don’t do gnomic sayings; they’re not in my DNA.

(shrugs) I mean, it’s okay. It hurts bio psych’s “credit rating” with me; but I’m not upset or whatever.

…. People lie on these stupid tests, though; it’s obviously superficial, you know.

—Let’s see: 103% say that they’d be happy to marry an Eskimo as long as they were white, and 99.98% say that having a Very educated piece of paper is essential, provided the fucker doesn’t bring any Books into the house.
—(pats the back of the younger version of himself) Good work. Today, we learned important things about marriage.
—Thanks, Dad—er—Professor!
(1950s!)

…. It really is stupid how many sentences are “Men are…. Women are….” like there’s one kind of man and one kind of woman. Women do tend to be more feminine than men, but they don’t all put equal weight on feminine-acceptingness in men, you know. Being a hard-ass usually isn’t a plus in itself, you know, (unless you’re a phone flirt or something), but I think more women are willing to deal with the “asshole”—to a certain extent—than the “loser”; or else, being a non-asshole is an asset but being non-solvent money-wise disqualifies you (unless, you know, you’re a flirt).

It’s funny how Mr Subtle Macho and Mr Obvious Statement just has to leave that part out, you know. We academics are macho, sure…. But not about money! 🫢

In the subtle-macho Star Trek future, money doesn’t matter…. (Do-doo! Do do do do….)

…. Stormin’ Norman Normie: Never Again.

(tagline) Because you’re supposed to be like the others—only more like me

Rated N for Normal

Never again, lol.

…. (a room with a naked lightbulb hanging from the ceiling) Listen. We know that you’re a “code talker” for a small white tribe called, “biological psychologist”, and we know many of your code words, for example, “generativity”, means “leaving a legacy”, just in case the word “legacy” isn’t tennis-club enough, right. Now, listen to me. Answer me one question, and I’ll let you go. Doesn’t that sound good? Answer one question, and I’ll give you a protein bar and let you hang out with your friends. Okay, here goes: why’d you do it? Why’d you think that the word “legacy” wasn’t tennis-club enough?

(the tortured face) I was afraid!!!!

…. But it was certainly a change, lol.

Me, then: People are cray; they don’t see that talking about Idea-land is the way to be a friend…. One day, I’ll find someone from Idea-land, and….

Me, now: …. And we’ll probs kill each other. Hmm. Let’s see. I could watch a softball game or something….
You: Yes…. I take credit for that, for All your successes, since I am the least macho of all men, and everyone who ever went to school owe their success to me, even if the entire course of the rest of their life is lived to spite me…. Oh, but have you considered becoming more macho?
Me: Yes…. Yes, indeed…. Here, stand over here, away from the security cameras…. (screaming, blood; people come running) I have no idea what happened. He just spontaneously exploded. I think maybe he died, or something.
—Yes, this is often the result when people explode, according to Science.

…. But now, although unfortunately I’m fantasizing cartoon violence against the textbook people, I find myself more kindly disposed to actual working professionals. People actually working their technical psych field job, you know—I used to wonder why they didn’t like unnecessarily complicating things; why they didn’t talk about their Large Books….

Now I get it. You got past the gatekeeper, who will thereafter take credit for your success because he let you in, but nobody has fond memories of being evaluated, even if the evaluation ended with a barely perceptible nod. The people out there working their job don’t want to come across as high-functioning alcoholics, with flowing wine and strange ideas, but they still want it to be as little like the Textbook Man Experience as possible, you know.

…. Select your character!

(unlocked characters)

—True Nerd!

—Working Psych Type!

—Textbook Writer!

—Sleepy Type!

—True Romantic!

True Romantic selected!

(using paperback novel as weapon) My heart will be avenged!

(LOADING SCREEN)

…. I think it’s funny how if you read a penny novel, you’ll be presented with more than one stereotype, more than one model or mold for men or women, you know—whereas if you spend $100 on some novel work of the scientists, it’s literally boiled down to one, like we’re watching sports or something: “Men were markedly more likely to put down their gender as MALE on the census; women, conversely, almost never did this…. Well, except for Juno MacGuff.”

…. And God, it is just so fucking biased, you know. It’s like, fuck, I know, I KNOW, that people seem like shit, but if there were a stereotype that said that the USA is the country in between Canada and Mexico, the over-critical elitist would be like, I don’t know— The USA is a country in the Western Hemisphere, but it is not…. REALLY, you know…. In between Canada and Mexico, as stereotypes (albeit ones fed by geographers and other bogus people for hundreds of years) would suggest…. The USA, ISN’T, in between Canada and Mexico; it’s…. It’s somewhere! Just somewhere! I’m not gonna tell you where! It’s a secret! But it’s not where you think! WHATEVER YOU THINK IT IS, THAT IS NOT HOW IT IS, HEATHEN!….

…. And on his monument will be written these words: he fought for the people he secretly despised and hid his contempt for: he fought for their lives, their dignity, and their Sacred Honour.

…. McGraw-Hill Education 2020: NEVER AGAIN.

(9/11: NEVER AGAIN, lol. After all, it killed almost as many people as a year of gun violence, or whatever, and, not only that, it was the sand (censored)s. It was almost the end of everything. People rioted in the streets for weeks, months. Stores had no food. Libraries burned. People had no heat and no power. They couldn’t watch the news—oh no wait. That’s a good thing.)

But seriously. Santa Rocca 2020: NEVER AGAIN.

Never again, Mommy! From now on, I’ll be good! I won’t inflict things on you, mommy! We don’t have to play chess together! We don’t have to translate Kant into New Testament Greek! I’ll nurture you, mommy! I’ll cherish you, and nourish you!…. As long as you don’t make me go back and take piano lessons with that bad man, Johann de la Santa Rocca!!! 😹

…. Many primitive people, such as the Hottentots and the sand (censored)s, virtually everyone else, and also people who watch sports tend to believe in God. However, I believe in the Thoughtful Void Entity, who is replacing God. He gives me the most masculine thoughts to think! Top that, Jews and Hottentots!

Have a nice day.
… (més)
 
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goosecap | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | May 23, 2023 |
This is basically a textbook on Educational Psychology. Inside contains theories such as Piaget's Cognitive Theory, Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development, Ivan Pavlov's conditioning, multiple intelligence and some others. However, the book isn't hilarious or engaging and it's hard to read. Also, this book tends to cover only the tip of the iceberg for certain theories.

This book also may not make you an effective teacher yet. This is an important book but there are still many other important books on teaching and communication in classroom.… (més)
 
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Wendy_Wang | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Sep 28, 2019 |
This is basically a textbook on Educational Psychology. Inside contains theories such as Piaget's Cognitive Theory, Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development, Ivan Pavlov's conditioning, multiple intelligence and some others. However, the book isn't hilarious or engaging and it's hard to read. Also, this book tends to cover only the tip of the iceberg for certain theories.

This book also may not make you an effective teacher yet. This is an important book but there are still many other important books on teaching and communication in classroom.… (més)
 
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Jason.Ong.Wicky | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Oct 9, 2018 |
Not impressed. Read the book for an Intro to Development course. It's concise. I am not sure if this would be helpful to someone who is studying for the GRE Psychology Subject or not. The class wasn't great either.
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melsmarsh | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | May 7, 2018 |

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