child psychology
noun
the study of the mental states and processes of children.
the application of psychological techniques to children.
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Origin of child psychology
First recorded in 1895–1900
Words nearby child psychology
child labor, child labor laws, child labour, child pornography, child psychiatry, child psychology, child restraint, child support, child welfare, child wife, child's play
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Example sentences from the Web for child psychology
Works on child-psychology abound in observations that leave no possible room for doubt on this point.
Essay on the Creative Imagination|Th. RibotTo more special subjects the pessimist then turns, such as crystallography, eugenics, child-psychology.
I am not going to add a chapter to that most unsatisfactory of all studies, child-psychology.
My Autobiography|F. Max Mller