Occupation or Discipline
child psychology
child psy·chol·o·gy [ chahyld sahy-kol-uh-jee ]
Subclass of:
Psychology
Definitions related to psychology, child:
  • (child psychology) Study of normal and abnormal mental processes and behavior of children.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Branch of psychology involving the study of normal and abnormal behavior of children.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (developmental psychology, child) Developmental psychology research focusing on the childhood years.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Child psychology, the study of the psychological processes of children and, specifically, how these processes differ from those of adults, how they develop from birth to the end of adolescence, and how and why they differ from one child to the next. The topic is sometimes grouped with infancy...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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