Child psychology

Synaptic pruning | Inside the Human Body

Michael Mosley explains how during brain development, synaptic pruning occurs and what this means for behaviour

Risk-taking | Inside the Human Body

Meet Stephanie, her teen brain allows her to take more risks when car racing compared to competitors.

Risk taking and stigma | The Life Scientific

Listen to the important work being carried out on teenage brain development and risk taking, especially the efforts needed to re...

Teenage brain development | Brainwaves

Focusing on role of the pre-frontal cortex and the limbic system in brain development and risk taking behaviour.

Depth perception in babies | Babies: Their Wonderful World

The visual cliff tests the importance of crawling for development of depth perception.

Harlow's monkeys | The Brain: A Secret History

Discussion of how Harlow's research showed for the first time what love and attachments were really based on.

Romanian orphans | The Forgotten Children

The context behind the Romanian orphans and the process of adoption.

The effect of deprivation | The Forgotten Children

Learn about the long term effects of the early and extreme deprivation that Romanian orphans experienced.

Maternal deprivation | Disowned and Disabled

Bowlby's explanation of attachment theory and the impact of maternal deprivation.

Introduction to attachment | In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and the Mind

The key theories of Lorenz, Bowlby and Harlow are explained in this introduction to...