A report on Developmental psychology and Erik Erikson

Special methods are used in the psychological study of infants.

Piaget's test for Conservation. One of the many experiments used for children.

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.

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Influential developmental psychologists from the 20th century include Urie Bronfenbrenner, Erik Erikson, Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Jean Piaget, Barbara Rogoff, Esther Thelen, and Lev Vygotsky.

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Anna Freud

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British psychoanalyst of Austrian-Jewish descent.

Anna Freud with her father Sigmund Freud in 1913

Anna Freud's London home, now dedicated to the life and work of her father as the Freud Museum

Blue plaque for Freud at 20 Maresfield Gardens

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

Focusing thereafter on research, observation and treatment of children, Anna Freud established a group of prominent child developmental analysts (which included Erik Erikson, Elisabeth Geleerd, Edith Jacobson and Margaret Mahler) who noticed that children's symptoms were ultimately analogue to personality disorders among adults and thus often related to developmental stages.