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child psychology

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of child psychology1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

For Ritch Savin Williams, a professor of child psychology at Cornell University, this isn't much of a revelation.

Child psychology is a good strategic preparation for dealing with men in boys' clubs, and men in general.

Better if every mother and father were in certain ways an expert in child psychology and hygiene.

We must not start, for example, from any dogmatic ideas which we may happen to have held upon the subject of child psychology.

It is now concerning itself with health, child welfare, and even with child psychology and the family as an institution.

“The rocking-horse and the big-boned Irish hunter” suggest rich mines of child psychology.

At this point it is that child psychology is more valuable than the study of the mind of animals.

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