Developmental Psych People Flashcards
Ainsworth
Devised the “strange situation” to study attachment
Baumrind
Studied the relationship between parental style and discipline; proposed 3 distinct parenting styles (authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive)
Bowlby
Studied attachment in human children
Chomsky
Linguist who suggested that children have an innate capacity for language acquisition
Erikson
Outlined 8 stages of psychosocial development covering the entire lifespan
Freud, S.
Outlined five stages of psychosexual development; stressed the importance of the Oepidal conflict in psychosocial development
Gesell
Believed that development was due primarily to maturation
Gilligan
Suggested that males and females have different orientations toward morality (in response to Kohlberg’s ideas on morality)
Hall
The founder of developmental psychology
Harlow
Used monkeys and “surrogate mothers” to study the role of contact comfort in bond formation
Kagan
Conducted landmark longitudinal study to examine developmental trajectories of children’s temperament
Kohlberg
Studied moral development using moral dilemmas
Locke
British philosopher who suggested that infants had no predetermined tendencies, that they were blank slates (tabulas rasa) to be written on by experience
Lorenz
Studied imprinting in birds
Piaget
Outlined four stages of cognitive development
