Developmental Psychology: a sub-area of Psychology or a new science?

• Autor(a) principal: Barros, Rogério de Andrade
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Coutinho, Denise Maria Barreto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Memorandum (Belo Horizonte)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/memorandum/article/view/12540
• topic: psicologia do desenvolvimento; estudos sobre a universidade; história da psicologia; ciência do desenvolvimento; developmental psychology; university studies; history of psychology; development science

The psychologist study of human development is revealed from a complex and sometimes anarchic panorama contemplating a wide range of perspectives. What marks the otherness of this field of knowledge? The aim of the present study is to understand how Developmental Psychology came up, marking its conditions of advent through a non-systematic literature review. We conclude that there are almost no distinction between Psychology and Developmental Psychology, from the historical and even managerial point of view in Graduate Programs in Brazil. On the other hand, Developmental Psychology and Educational Psychology are historically interlaced. More recently, there have also been efforts to separate the Developmental Psychology of the field of Psychology through a delimitation of its own objects and methods, inserting it among a non-disciplinary perspective, such as Science Development.