A report on Developmental psychology

Developmental psychology

Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (Лев Семёнович Выго́тский; Леў Сямёнавіч Выго́цкі; November 17 1896 – June 11, 1934) was a Soviet psychologist, known for his work on psychological development in children.

It was originated by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget (1896–1980).

There is evidence for human behavioral learning prenatally, in which habituation has been observed as early as 32 weeks into gestation, indicating that the central nervous system is sufficiently developed and primed for learning and memory to occur very early on in development.

Erik Homburger Erikson (born Erik Salomonsen; 15 June 1902 – 12 May 1994) was a German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychological development of human beings.

Alongside Hermine Hug-Hellmuth and Melanie Klein, she may be considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology.

This is a fundamental concept studied in the field of developmental psychology, the subfield of psychology that addresses the development of young children's social and mental capacities.

Valerie F. Reyna (born 1955) is an American psychologist and Professor of Human Development at Cornell University and an expert on false memory and risky decision making.

Jean Piaget was one of the most important and influential people in the field of developmental psychology.

Child development involves the biological, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the onset of puberty.