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The Origins of Developmental Psychology

It is commonly held that psychology as a scholarly discipline is a recent phenomenon in comparison to such older fields as physics and mathematics. Textbooks of psychology often mention Wundt as the first psychologist, putting the discipline’s origins in the late 1800s. Developmental psychology appears even later, with the founders of developmental psychology, such as G. Stanley Hall, often seen as emerging rightat thebeginningof the20thcentury.Thename psychologyhassomewhatearlierorigins, first referring to the“soul”sometime in the late1600s,but itwas not used widely until the 19th century. Taken together, it looks as if psychological questions were neither seriously considered nor addressed until recent times. There is some truth to these accounts if we understand psychology as only existing when there are carefully controlled experiments with clear dependent and JOURNAL OF COGNITION AND DEVELOPMENT, 1(3), 347–357 Copyright © 2000, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.