The study of human development is a rich and varied subject. We all have personal experience with development, but it is sometimes difficult to understand how and why people grow, learn, and act as ...

There are four major developmental domains: physical, cognitive, language, and social-emotional. As children grow, they develop skills in all areas. Acquiring and mastering skills in certain domains ...

A new developmental theory is reshaping how experts understand the reliability of children's and adolescents' memories of ...

The leading theories of consciousness suggest that the outer layer of the human brain, called the cortex (in blue in figure 1 ...