child psychology

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noun

the study of the mental states and processes of children.

the application of psychological techniques to children.

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Nearby words

child labor, child labor laws, child labour, child pornography, child psychiatry, child psychology, child restraint, child support, child welfare, child wife, child's play

Origin of child psychology

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Examples 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. Ribot
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
I am not going to add a chapter to that most unsatisfactory of all studies, child-psychology.
My Autobiography|F. Max Mller