Child psychology (Book with DVD)

Childhood is a time of rapid growth and development, and studying these changes is endlessly stimulating. In this book, child psychology, you will be introduced to the discipline of child psychology and some of the key questions that guide the understanding of childhood. These questions include 'What in uences children's development?' and 'How do psychologists study the physical and cognitive changes that occur during childhood?' As you study through this text, you will also gain a deeper understanding concerning how psychologists work with young children across a range of applied settings. Child Psychology is the psychology of child. A child is a human being of a de nite age. Psychologists maintain that childhood continues till the age of wave: Between the ages of twelve and eighteen children are called adolescents. In order to distinguish the  rst six years of a child's life from the second stage of development 'between six and twelve, the term infancy is applied to the former.

Development begins when the child is still in his mother's womb, and therefore, the study of the prenatal stage also becomes important. Modern psychologists, therefore, believe that child psychology should comprehend the child's development almost from the moment of conception to its attaining the age of eighteen.