Format:
Online-Ressource (xii p., 1 leaf, 711 p.)
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ill
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24 cm
Series Statement:
International university series in psychology
Content:
"The field of child psychology is almost as old as is the field of experimental psychology. Experimental psychology has had a much older scientific and academic status, but at the present time it is probable that much less money is being spent for pure research in the field of experimental psychology than is being spent for pure research in the field of child psychology. In spite of this obvious fact, many experimental psychologists continue to look upon the field of child psychology as a proper field of research for women and for men whose experimental masculinity is not of the maximum. This attitude of patronage is based almost entirely upon a blissful ignorance of what is going on in the tremendously virile field of child behavior. The time is not far distant, if it is not already here, when nearly all competent psychologists will recognize that one-half of the whole field of psychology is involved in the problem of how the infant becomes an adult psychologically. It is believed that a proper and systematic presentation of the problems of child psychology, presented as problems experimentally investigated, will demonstrate a field of scientific research surprisingly full of accomplishment and of promise even to some of the experts in the field itself. The main reason for this surprise is that most of the books in child psychology have been either highly specialized monographs or highly popularized elementary textbooks. There has not yet been a single volume treating the entire field of child psychology which could be useful to students already acquainted with psychology and already expert in child psychology"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)
Note:
Includes indexes. - Series title in part at head of t.-p. - "References" at end of each chapter. - Electronic reproduction; Washington, D.C; American Psychological Association; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement; s2011 dcunns
Language:
English
Author information:
Buhler, Charlotte Malachowski 1893-1974
Author information:
Freud, Anna 1895-1982
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