Developmental psychology textbooks are full of information about infants and young children. This In focus deals with the question of how that information is obtained.
There are clearly challenges associated with finding out about the thoughts, feeling and capabilities of young children, and the younger the child, the bigger the challenge. How, for example, can we know what the perceptual world of neonates (newborn infants) is like? We can’t ask them (well we can, but their answers are difficult to interpret). We can’t set them tasks to do in order to observe how many they get right (well we can, but they always score 0 out of 100). And what about the world of the unborn child, in the womb? Can we ever know about that?
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