Theories
History
Connections to Education
100

Gardner proposed the idea that there are this many different intelligences.

What is 8?

100

Urie Bronfenbrenner served as a psychologist for the Air Corps and Office of Strategic Services in this major world conflict.

What is WWII?

100

Urie Bronfenbrenner spoke to congress to help create this federal program that supports low-income children and their families.

What is Head Start?

200

Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory describes external effects on a child’s development mapped out into this many concentric rings of influence.

What is 5?

200

After graduating and spending twenty years working as a researcher, this theorist returned to Harvard as a professor. 

Who is Howard Gardner?

200

Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences is often used in education along with this theory of human development created by Urie Bronfenbrenner.

A. What is Ecological Systems Theory?

300

Howard Gardener used this psychologist's work as a basis for much of his own work.

Who is Jean Piaget?

300

Urie Bronfenbrenner spent most of his career at this Ivy League school.

What is Cornell University?

300

Gardner’s work challenged this longtime belief about intelligence.

What is general intelligence (IQ)?

400

Howard Gardner proposed his theory about intelligences in this book.

What is Frames of Mind?

400

This award, named for the influential theorist that inspired it, is given out by the American Psychology Association for "Lifetime Contribution to Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society".

What is the Bronfenbrenner Award?

400

Howard Gardner influenced education with this idea on how students learn.

What is Multiple Intelligence Theory?

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