Developmental Psychology

Abstract

In the succession of introductory texts in psychology which has appeared during recent years the present book by Professor Goodenough marks a turning point. Here, for the first time, so far as the reviewer is aware, the developmental principle has been consistently applied to the subject matter of the first course in psychology. The fact that this treatment is possible is striking evidence of the progress that research has made in the psychology of infancy and childhood. After two brief chapters in which the reader is introduced to psychology, its problems and methods, the student begins psychology with the beginning of life. Chapter III is a systematic, but simple, presentation of the