1. Arnold Gesell
... on the development of normal children. Gesell was the first to use a quantitative study of human development from birth through adolescence. His philosophy was simple, that behavior is a function of structure and that humans develop in a patterned, predictable way. For forty plus years Gesell and his coworkers researched children, first at Yale University and then at Gesell Institute of Child Development ... help record and analyze the behavior of the children. It was through his research of these children that physical and mental development in infants, children, and adolescents are co...
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