child psychology

American  

noun

1. the study of the mental states and processes of children.

2. the application of psychological techniques to children.

---

Etymology

Origin of child psychology

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

child psychology

As of 2021, only 10% of master’s degree recipients who specialized in developmental and child psychology were male.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

“You have to learn to cater to what’s developmentally appropriate to each person. You learn about child behavior, child psychology and the formation of the brain and how they learn.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

Holocaust survivor Lydia Tischler is awarded an MBE for services to Holocaust remembrance and child psychology.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025

Its outcome would affect the path, Brookwood writes, for “potential reforms in education, child psychology, medical training in child development, protections of the social safety net, judicial decisions, and parents’ encouragement of their children.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2021

And that was all supplemented by the progress of physiological psychology, pathological psychology, child psychology, animal psychology.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo