Major Development Theorists

Question 0

Robert Coles

Answer 0

Studied Moral Development and stressed how important it is that parents set good examples of moral behavior.

Question 1

Jean Piaget

Answer 1

Focused on how children learn: going through 4 stages so that their learning task are suitable for the sage of thinking that they are in.

Question 2

Abraham Maslow

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Believed that children’s needs must be met sequentially from physiological to self actualizing in a pyramid direction.

Question 3

Erik Erekison

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Personality develops through stages that involve a crisis and caregivers must be aware of a child’s needs at each stage.

Question 4

B.F Skinner

Answer 4

Positive effects continue behavior and negative effects discontinue behavior so rewards and punishments work.

Question 5

Albert Bandura

Answer 5

Children learn by modeling in their environment.

Question 6

Lev Vygotsky

Answer 6

Biological development and cultural experience influence children’s abilities to think and learn so social experiences help intellectual development.

Question 7

Maria Montessori

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Children learn by using their senses and they will lead their own learning if given opportunities that interest them.

Question 8

Arnold Gesell

Answer 8

There is an order to which children develop an understanding what is standard in essential for caregivers.