Ontogenetic parade

{{Short description|Developmental psychology term for childhood fears progression}}

In developmental psychology, the ontogenetic parade is the term introduced by Isaac Marks for the predictable pattern of the development of normal childhood fears: emergence, plateau, and decline.Fears, Phobias, and Rituals by Isaac Meyer Marks (1987) {{ISBN|0-19-503927-0}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=nKLg3MFgBGgC&pg=PA109&dq=%22ontogenetic+parade%22 p. 109: ''The Ontogenetic Parade and its Substrate]"Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology", by Theodore Millon, Paul H. Blaney, Roger D. Davis, [https://books.google.com/books?id=61gdxlJX5iEC&pg=PA82&dq=blood+injection+injury+phobia p. 82]