It is much easier to measure the development of a child's physical growth compared to its psychological growth. Children usually find their boundaries of what is acceptable behavior at an early age. How they react to this boundary is usually determined by what living situation they are in, how they are being raised, and also genetics. There are different viewpoints on what has a bigger impact on how a child will develop, and this is called Nature vs. Nurture.
The nature argument actually came a decade or two before the nurture argument, at least in the major ideas and creators of them. In late 19th century, Charles Darwin focused majorly on the nature side of development. Darwin even closely studied his children. Just a few years later in the early 1900's G. Stanley Hall began the studies of early childhood experiences in relation to development. This was called the theory of "psychoanalysis". This theory was new at this time having just been developed by Sigmund Freud.......

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Title: Child Development
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