Behaviorist Theory
This person is regarded as the father of Operant Conditioning.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This individual believed children develop through "unfolding" and founded the first kindergarten.
Who is Friedrich Froebel?
This person developed a theory that cognitive and social development occur hand in hand and cannot be separated.
Who is Erik Erikson?
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
This person developed the ecological systems theory that views the child as developing within a system of relationships.
Who is Urie Bronfenbrenner?
This individual studied operant conditioning by conducting experiments using animals which he placed in a Box to show how positive reinforcement worked
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This person is best remembered for his book Emile and advocated for the "natural" education of young children. He also believed in the idea of unfolding according to an innate timetable.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
The stage of psychosocial development where children are learning and want to undertake many adultlike activities but sometimes overstep the limits set.
What is the Initiative versus Guilt stage?
This person developed the theory of cognitive development based on ages and stages and saw children as "little scientists."
Who is Jean Piaget?
The environmental system that encompasses the environments of parents, family, peers, child care, schools, neighborhood, parks and communities where children spend their time.
What is the microsystem?
This is defined as the opposite of reinforcement since it is designed to weaken or eliminate a response rather than increase it.
What is punishment?
Froebel developed these objects for children to handle and use in accordance with teachers' instructions so they could learn shape, size, color, and concepts involved in counting, measuring, contrasting, and comparison.
What are "gifts"?
When children begin to learn how to get their needs met and develop attachments that are either secure or insecure.
What is the Basic Trust versus Mistrust stage?
The concept that children can learn more with the help of a more competent person ( a peer or an adult) is called ZPD for short.
What is Zone of Proximal Development?
The system that includes the broader culture in which children live as well as the customs and values of society in general.
What is the macrosystem?
Behaviorists discovered that different patterns of these had different effects on the speed of learning and extinction.
What are schedules of reinforcement?
These materials were designed for developing various skills through activities such as sewing, drawing pictures, modeling with clay, cutting, and folding paper were also developed by Froebel.
What are "occupations"?
When children are actively and busily learning to be competent and productive or feel unable to do things well in comparison to others.
What is the Industry versus Inferiority stage?
This person is the father of the progressive education movement and believed in educating children for today not tomorrow.
Who is John Dewey?
The linkages or interactions between microsystems such as the family's support of literacy having a major influence on the child's performance in school.
What is the mesosystem?
Teachers often use this behavior modification to reward young children's good behavior (fake money, buttons, poker chips, stickers,snacks, privileges, etc).
What is a token economy?
This person also advocated that education should follow the course of nature and laid the basis for discovery learning. Believed all education is based on sensory impressions.
Who is Johann Pestalozzi?
The time when toddlers learn to be self-sufficient in their abilities in activities, trusting themselves and their relationships or don't which results in poor achievement.
What is the Autonomy versus Shame and Doubt stage?
The idea that children learn by doing is the foundation for this child-centered approach.
What is constructivist education?
The environmental influences and ievents that influence children's development and behavior over their lifetimes such as temporal changes in life events, divorce, the birth of a sibling, divorce, war, or living in a technological age.
What is the chronosystem?