child psychology

noun

the study of the mental states and processes of children.
the application of psychological techniques to children.

Origin of child psychology

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Historical Examples of child psychology

I am not going to add a chapter to that most unsatisfactory of all studies, child-psychology.
My Autobiography
F. Max Mller
To more special subjects the pessimist then turns, such as crystallography, eugenics, child-psychology.
Papers and proceedings of the thirty-fifth general meeting of the American Library Association, 1913
Various
Works on child-psychology abound in observations that leave no possible room for doubt on this point.
Essay on the Creative Imagination
Th. Ribot