We are using this book for a required Psyc class.
It is one of the worst written books; it is wordy, hidden agenda and very very poor in communicating key issues,concepts and ideas.
Forget about the testing, the testing is abstract and most of the questions have nothing to do with the text, key concepts or ideas. Instead you feel like a game show contestant looking for the HIDDEN responses the computer generated test wants. Most of the time the question and answer are subjective or percentages that have no use what so ever.
Example: The lady in the picture is a good mom. then you get a-d. all you have to go by is a picture.
Do not wast your time or money.

This was a great textbook...maybe the best I've used yet. I was looking forward to my human development class anyway but this book made it even better. It was well written, easy to read, excellent anecdotes and side stories that you could read or save for later. It gave great ideas for writing papers and was extremely well organized. I loved it and think that anyone who is interested in human development (class or no class) should read this text.