Our website is tracing the history of child psychology. We will delve into the areas of attachment, intelligence testing, cognitive and moral development as well as psychoanalysis. Throughout this web site you will explore these different areas and learn about how these theories impacted the development of child psychology.
Child Psychology at its best!
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The Marshmallow Experiment is a famous test of this concept conducted by Walter Mischel at Stanford University and discussed by Daniel Goleman in his popular work. In the 1960s, a group of four-year olds were given a marshmallow and promised another, only if they could wait 20 minutes before eating the first one. Some children could wait and others could not. The researchers then followed the progress of each child into adolescence, and demonstrated that those with the ability to wait were better adjusted and more dependable (determined via surveys of their parents and teachers), and scored an average of 210 points higher on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
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20th Century Child Psychology Timeline
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1905 ↓ |
1916 ↓ |
1920 |
1949 ↓ |
1959 ↓ |
1968 ↓ |
1969 ↓ |
1969 ↓ |
1978 ↓ |
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Binet-Simon Scale |
Stanford-Binet Scale |
Freud’s Psychosexual Stages |
WISC Scale |
Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development |
Erikson psychosocial development |
Harlow’s Rheus Monkey Experiment |
Bowlby’s Attachment Theory |
Ainsworth’s Patterns of Attachment |