Establishing a background for developmental psychology -- Granville Stanley Hall and the founding of developmental psychology -- Additional contributors and contributions during the child study era -- Foundations for a modern science: the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial and developmental psychology after World War I -- Mainstream advances in developmental psychology from the 1920s and 1940s -- Representative theories of development -- The origins of life-span developmental psychology -- Nature, nurture, and the concept of intelligence -- Applications of developmental psychology: advice to parents and teachers -- Critical developments since World War II

1. Developmental psychology -- History