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The schedules for older children became the property of Gesell Institute of Child Development which was established in 1950. In 1964 Dr. Francis Ilg and Dr. Louise Bates Ames, the founders of the Gesell Institute, refined, revised, and collected data on children 5–10 years of age and subsequently in 1965, 1972, and 1979. The results were ...
Swiss-born American psychologist Edith Ackermann. Edith Ackermann (1946–2016) Lauren Adamson; Mary Ainsworth (1913–1999) Martha W. Alibali; Louise Bates Ames (1908–1906) Jeffrey Arnett; Louise Arseneault; American psychologist James Mark Baldwin
Play is a major activity for ages 3–5. For Piaget, through play "a child reaches higher levels of cognitive development." [114]: 14 In their expanded world, children in the 3–5 age group attempt to find their own way. If this is done in a socially acceptable way, the child develops the initiative. If not, the child develops guilt. [115]
Pages in category "Child psychologists" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Elizabeth Adare;
The First Five Years of Life (1940), Infant and Child in the Culture of Today (1943), and The Child From Five to Ten (1946) extended Gesell’s descriptions of children’s stages of growth from motor and cognitive development to that of personal-social activity. [2] In 1938, Ames made the first of a number of films about child development.
Pediatric psychology is a multidisciplinary field of both scientific research and clinical practice which attempts to address the psychological aspects of illness, injury, and the promotion of health behaviors in children, adolescents, and families in a pediatric health setting. Psychological issues are addressed in a developmental framework ...
Specialized lists of psychologists can be found at the articles on comparative psychology, list of clinical psychologists, list of developmental psychologists, list of educational psychologists, list of evolutionary psychologists, list of social psychologists, and list of cognitive scientists. Many psychologists included in those lists are also ...
Between 2 and 3 years of age, the child is able to refer to themself as "me", combine nouns and verbs, use short sentences, use some simple plurals, answer "where" questions, and has a vocabulary of about 450 words. [131] By age 4, children are able to use sentences of 4–5 words and have a vocabulary of about 1000 words. [131]