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Developmental psychology
Developmental psychology is a core component of psychology degrees. In the UK, for a degree programme to carry the graduate basis for recognition with the British Psychological Society, students must study developmental psychology as part of their degree, at least at introductory level. However, this doesn’t mean that studying developmental psychology should be a chore! In fact, we believe that developmental psychology is one of the most interesting, exciting and broad-ranging subjects within the whole academic discipline of psychology.
Developmental psychology covers all aspects of psychological development across the lifespan, from birth through childhood and adolescence, and into adulthood. Whether you are more interested in cognition or emotion; in relationships or intelligence; in language or identity –
developmental psychology has something for you! Furthermore, development is something which affects all of us and so is relevant to everyone. We all began life as children and so we all have a journey that we can look back on, and experiences that we can draw upon to understand developmental psychology. We have all been shaped by the relationships and experiences that we
have had across our life journey so far. We all have parents (whether biological or not) and many of us have siblings or relatives whom we can look at as we consider the roles of nature and nurture in shaping the people we have become. Some of us have children and many more of us will go on to have children in the future, and so we can use developmental psychology to explain, to understand and to guide our behaviour as parents and as children. So, developmental psychology is not just an abstract, theoretical subject – it affects us all and is directly relevant to our lives and to the lives of everyone around us
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