Psychology is the medical term connected with human brain or behavioral qualities. Psychology in adults and children vary in certain ways. Child psychology could also be termed as Child development. The term also means the study of psychological processes of the children and especially the way such processes differ from the process in the adult individual, the way the child develops or grows from his birth to the end of adolescence as well as how and why they differ one child to the other. The subject of child psychology is often clubbed with infancy, adulthood and aging under the category of developmental psychology.

As the technical regulation with the solid experimental basis, the child study has been relatively recently initiated. It is supposed to have begun since 1840 when Charles Darwin started recording the growth and development of one of his own children, collecting the data much likely showing that he was studying on some other species. The similar or perhaps more detailed study that was published by on of the German psycho physiologists named William Preyer which described and presented the methods for the series of others. G. Stanley Hall, the American educational psychologist, sometime during the year 1891, instituted the Pedagogical Seminary – the periodical devoted to child psychology and pedagogy. However, during the early twentieth century the development of intelligence tests and establishments of the child guidance clinics defined the field of child psychology further.

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