1. Child Development Theorists Review
Early Lifespan Development

2. Rudolph Dreikurs Q: Why do children misbehave? 4 Goals of Misbehavior
1. Attention
2. Power and control
3. To Revenge
4. To display feelings of inadequacy

3. Benjamin Spock Q: How should we treat our children?
Show love and affection to your children, IT IS ESSENTIAL!

4. Abraham Maslow
Q: What motivates children?
Hierarchy of Needs

5. Sigmund Freud Father of psychoanalysis (the mind is an iceberg)
Q: Why do people act the way that they do?
Father of psychoanalysis (the mind is an iceberg)
First few years of your life have a lasting impact on your development

6. T. Berry Brazelton
Q: How should we interact with babies so they meet milestones?
Touchpoint Theory= touchpoints are like “milestones” or predictable developmental tasks for young children

7. Howard Gardner Q: How do children learn best? Multiple Intelligences
Each child learns best through natural form of “intelligence”

8. Arnold Gesell Q: How do people mature?
Maturation is directly connected with the nervous system and brain development
Self-regulation takes places in a spiral pattern until the child learns a new skills

9. John Bowlby Q: How do kids build relationships?
Attachment theory- kids clinch to their parents
Must attach to someone in order to survive and thrive

10. B. F. Skinner Q: How are we conditioned to act a certain way?
Operant conditioning- changing a behavior by using some form of reinforcement

11. Erik Erikson Q: How do people develop socially through the lifespan?
8 Stages of Development

12. Jean Piaget Q: How do people develop cognitively? 4 Stages of
Cognitive Development

13. John Watson Q: Why do people behave the way they do?
Classical Conditioning- learning process where 2 stimuli that are unrelated and repeatedly paired and a response is created
Little Albert-

14. Urie Bronfenbrenner Q: How is a child affected by their environment?
Ecological systems theory- closest relationships have the biggest effect on a child

15. Lawrence Kohlberg : How do children develop morally?
Theory of Moral Development- determining right from wrong
Level 1- Punishment or Reward- Kids
Level 2- Laws and How they will perceived- Youth and Teens
Level 3- Based on Justice- AdultsQ

16. Albert Bandura Q: How do kids learn from adults?
Social Learning Theory- Kids learn through the actions of others
Bobo Doll Experiment=Monkey see, monkey doo

17. Lev Vygotsky Q: How do kids develop cognitively?
Zone of Proximal Development- Kids can
learn a lot more with just a little guidance