The cognitive-developmental perspective focuses on how children think and how their thinking changes over time. He proposed one of the best known of these theories.
Who is Jean Piaget?
100
He published a theory of evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
100
His is the physician specializing in diseases of the nervous system that is the first theory of this perspective.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
100
He had a dog that drooled when he rang the dinner bell.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
100
Most theorists agree that this is important to development
What is environment?
200
Piaget argued that children are like these...creating theories about how the physical and social worlds they are trying to understand.
What are scientists?
200
the idea that the best suited offspring survive
What is natural selection?
200
This theory of personality consists of three parts:
What is id, ego and superego?
200
He assumed that, with the correct techniques, anything can be learned by almost anyone.
Who is John Watson?
200
The knowledge, attitudes, , beliefs, symbols, and behaviours associated with a group of people is called this?
What is culture?
300
According to Piaget, at a few points in development, this happens
What is children realize that a theory cannot be revised
300
His maturational theory states that child development reflects a specific and prearranged scheme or plan within the body.
Who is Arnold Gesell?
300
he believed that the psychological and social aspects of development are as important as the biological and sexual aspects that Freud emphasized.
Who is Erik Erikson?
300
He studied operant conditioning
Who is B. F. Skinner?
300
One of the first theorists to emphasize cultural context in children's development.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
400
Piaget proposed that there are this many stages of Cognitive Development
What is four
400
The idea that chicks follow their mother is called imprinting. In humans, it's this emotional bond between parents and children.
What is attachment?
400
There are ___ stages in the psychosocial theory?
What is 8?
400
This is a consequence that increases the future likelihood of the behaviour it follows.
What is reinforcement?
400
He portrayed the developing child as embedded in a series of complex and interactive systems. sometimes referred to as an ecological theory.
Who is Urie Bronfenbrenner?
500
The First of Piaget's four stages of cognitive development is called this and is closely linked to the infant's basic sensory and motor skills.
What is sensorimotor?
500
This important period is the time in development when a specific type of learning best takes place.
What is the critical period?
500
The name of each stage in the psychosocial theory reflects this
What is a challenge or crisis?
500
This is an aversive consequence that decreases the future likelihood of the behaviour it follows.
What is punishment?
500
In Ecological Theory, the environment is divided into four levels.
What is the Microsystem, the Mesosystem, the exosystem, and the Macrosystem.