Developmental Psychology
Developmental Psychology Q: What is developmental psychology? A: Developmental psychology studies changes in thought and behavior that occur during the human life cycle. Q: So children are not the only focus of developmental psychology? ... Child development is one area of developmental psychology. ... Secondly, developmental psychologists are concerned with not only identifying what the changes are during the human life cycle, but also finding out why these changes take place, and how they take place. ... A: When designing a developmental study, psychologists are faced with methodological choices in several steps.