1. CD Theorists

2. JEAN PIAGET Stages of Cognitive Development

3. ABRAHAM MASLOW Hierarchy of Needs

4. BF SKINNER Studied Behavior Operant Conditioning – Uses positive / negative reinforcers and positive / negative punishments to get a solicited response. Behavior becomes learned over time in response to the punishment or reinforcement. http://www.simplypsychology.org/operant-conditioning.html

5. ERIK ERIKSON -Fatherless years as a child drove him to study our identities and what makes us who we are. -8 Stages of Development

7. URIE BROFENBRENNER The Ecological Systems Theory States that human development is influenced by the different types of environmental systems

9. SIGMUND FREUD

10. 3 Parts to our Psyche: ID – The only part we are born with Ego – Compromising between the two for a socially acceptable outcome. SuperEgo – Our morals and Values