Abstract: Research has been made in approach of accounting method for the contents of 704 theses on developmental psychology collected in CNKI website during the seven years at the turn of millennium(from 1997 to 2003).It was found that the theses was focused on three fields——social cognition and interaction,intelligence-thought and per-sonality development,some progress was made in the research on moral psychology,mental health and special psy-chology,research on the four fields-movement and activity,physiological development,sensation-perception and ageing-was relatively insufficient;research was targeted at infants,elementary school children and adolescent students,but research on the two ends of life span was still sparse;research pattern was chiefly cooperative,but the cooperative pattern and range needed to be expanded;research was mainly done by normal schools and regional distribution was not balanced.

Key words: developmental psychology, present state, accounting method