Who Are They
What They Believed
Theories
Significance
Application of Theory
100
He was the first person to study children scientifically through real life observations and obsessive note taking. He discovered that all children’s intellectual development progressed through four stages beginning with infancy and completed by adolescence.
Who is Piaget?
100
An individual’s personality develops through a series of stages based on their ability to control their internal needs and wants and depends on changes in the distribution of sexual energy. The stages are oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
Who is Sigmund Freud?
100
His four stages of development are named: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. A child must master a stage before he/she can move on to the next.
Who is Piaget?
100
One of the only theorists to develop a theory that explains development and the importance of social relationships across the human life span.
Who is Erikson?
100
This theorist's work helps teachers to know what to do if a child is exhibiting an unwanted behavior.
Who is Skinner?
200
This theorist studied children and families in the light of the social changes that occurred in the 20th century.
Who is Bronfenbrenner?
200
Believed that individuals move through a series of life crises. Successful completion of each stage relies on the social relationships of the individual.
Who is Erikson?
200
This theorist’s Ecolological Systems Theory tries to understand the relationship between the infant, the family, and society and how they impact development.
Who is Bronfenbrenner?
200
Proposed a way for parents and teachers to help children learn new skills and knowledge that was just beyond what they could do without help.
Who is Vygotsky?
200
If children are learn new information that doesn't make sense to them, they will change their understanding (schema) to fit the new information (accommodation) or they will fit the new information into what they already know (assimilation).
Who is Piaget?
300
This theorist studied under Freud but refined Freud’s theory.
Who is Erikson?
300
Believed that human development is shaped by the two-way interactions between children and their parents within the various settings that make up their environments.
Who is Bronfenbrenner?
300
This theorist developed a theory based on the influence of the unconscious on the development of the psyche. He suggested five stages of development: oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital.
Who is Freud?
300
His theory provided parents and teachers with ideas about what they could do to help a child learn a new behavior or stop an unwanted behavior.
Who is BF Skinner?
300
Parents, caregivers, and politicians can use his theories to support requests for social support.
Who is Bronfenbrenner?
400
Most of his work was done with small rats in mazes. No systematic research was done on children
Who is B. F. Skinner
400
Developed the theory of operant conditioning. Basically, learners are more likely to repeat behaviors that are followed by rewards and that learners will be less likely to repeat behaviors are not rewarded or that get punished
Who is BF Skinner?
400
He developed the theory that explains how individual learns based on experiments with animals.
Who is BF Skinner?
400
This theory explored the role of the unconscious in an individual's development and behavior. The theory was influential since it viewed development as moving through a series of stages.
What is Freud's psychoanalytic or psychosexual theory?
400
This theorist helps parents and teachers to structure new learning in such a way that the child can understand the new information or task if helped by a more knowledgeable other.
Who is Vygotsky?
500
He was a Russian psychologist who studied how children learn and adapt to a particular social and cultural setting.
Who is Vygotsky?
500
He suggested that children's cognitive development moves through a series of stages dependent on the construction and organization of increasingly complex cognitive structures (schema). Learning occurs through the process of assimilating and accommodating new information.
Who is Piaget?
500
This theorist developed the socio-cultural theory to explain how children learn in response to their social and cultural settings.
Who is Vygotsky?
500
This theory suggests that children should be learning through concrete, hands-on activities.
What is cognitive developmental theory or constructivism?
500
This theorist helps teachers and parents to know what kinds of social interactions and environments they should provide children so they can develop a positive sense of self.
Who is Erikson?
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