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Developmental Psychology

Definition: Developmental Psychology

Developmental Psychology

Noun

1. The branch of psychology that studies the social and mental development of children.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definition: Developmental Psychology

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Medicine

That branch of psychology which studies the processes of pre-and post-natal growth and the maturation of behavior. In its broadest sense, developmental psychology includes the periods of infancy, childhood and adulthood. Source: European Union. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Developmental psychology

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Developmental Psychology is the scientific study of change across the life span. This field examines change in a broad range of topics including: motor skills, problem solving abilities, conceptual understanding, acquisition of language, moral understanding, and identity formation. 
Questions addressed by developmental psychologists include the following.  Are children qualitatively different from adults or do they simply lack the experience that adults drawn upon?  Does development occur through the gradually accumulation of knowledge or through shifts from one stage of thinking to another?  Are children born with innate knowledge or do they figure things out through experience?  Is development driven by the social context or by something inside each child?

Many theoretical perspectives attempt to explain development, among the more common are: Jean Piaget’s Stage Theory, Lev Vygotsky’s Social Contextualism, and the Information Processing framework.

Developmental Psychology informs several applied fields, including:  Education, School Psychology, Child Psychopathology, and Developmental Forensics.  Developmental Psychology complements several other basic research fields in Psychology including: Social, Cognitive, & Comparative.

Developmental psychologists have designed many web sites about their field.  DevPsy.org provides lessons for 
teaching and learning Developmental Psychology.  GMU’s On-Line Resources provides an extensive web directory of Developmental Psychology organizations.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Developmental psychology."
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Synonyms: Developmental Psychology
Synonyms: child psychology (n), genetic psychology (n). (additional references)
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Commercial Usage: Developmental Psychology
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Books
  • Developmental Psychology With Infotrac: Childhood & Adolescence (reference)
  • Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology (reference)
  • Peer Prejudice and Discrimination: Evolutionary, Cultural, and Developmental Dynamics (Developmental Psychology Series) (reference)
  • Theories of Developmental Psychology (reference)
    (more book examples)
  
Periodicals
  • Developmental Psychology (reference)
  • Hattatsu Shinrigaku Kenkyu = Japanese Journal Of Developmental Psychology (reference)
  • Journal Of Applied Developmental Psychology (reference)
  • Psycscan : Developmental Psychology (reference)
    (more periodical examples)
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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Developmental Psychology
The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
developmental psychology
155
article developmental psychology
7
college developmental psychology student
5
theory of developmental psychology
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child developmental psychology
4
developmental psychology research
3
life span developmental psychology
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applied developmental psychology
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Modern Translation: Developmental Psychology
Language Translations for "developmental psychology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish
  
udviklingspsykologi. (various references)
   
Dutch
  
ontwikkelingspsychologie, evolutionaire psychologie. (various references)
   
Finnish
  
kehityspsykologia. (various references)
   
French
  
psychologie génétique, psychologie du développement. (various references)
   
German
  
genetische Psychologie, Entwicklungspsychologie. (various references)
   
Greek 
  
γενετική ψυχολογία, ψυχολογία της ανάπτυξης. (various references)
   
Italian
  
psicologia dello sviluppo, psicologia dell'età evolutiva. (various references)
   
Japanese Kanji 
  
発達心理学 . (various references)
   
Japanese Katakana 
  
はったつしんりがく. (various references)
   
Pig Latin
  
evelopmentalday ychologypsay.(various references)
   
Portuguese
  
psicologia do desenvolvimento. (various references)
   
Spanish
  
psicología evolutiva. (various references)
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Misspellings: Developmental Psychology
Misspellings
"Developmental Psychology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: developemental psychology, developmental psycology. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).
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