Child Psychology and Development

Child development and evolutionary psychology.

Evolutionary developmental psychology involves the expression of evolved, epigenetic programs, as described by the developmental systems approach, over the course of ontogeny. There have been different selection pressures on organisms at different times in ontogeny, and some characteristics of infants and children were selected in evolution to serve an adaptive function at that time in their li...

Pioneers in pediatric psychology: integrating nutrition and child development interventions.

As part of the Pioneers in Pediatric Psychology series, this article provides a brief personal account of Maureen Black's career as a pediatric psychologist. It traces the transition of the Society of Pediatric Psychology (SPP) from a section of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA) to an independent division of APA, which occurred during my preside...

Child and Educational Psychology

Child and Educational Psychology. Tlie Psychological Bulletin. Vol. Ill, No. 2, Nov. 15, 1907. Edited by M. V. O'Shea. The leading article of this number of the "Psychological Bulletin" is a critical and historical survey of recent work in education and child psychology from the pen of its editor, the Professor of the Science and Art of Education in the University of Wisconsin. Speaking for edu...

Child Psychology

Child Psychology

a great many experimental studies of the infant's behaviour, intellectual and linguistic growth, play and social development. The author's account of the development of meanings, of imagination and of verbal learning, thinking and working, is sound and clear. The description of the development of social behaviour and the discussion of the complexity of conscious motives entering into social sit...