Major Theorist of Development

Believed in a pyramid-shaped Hierarchy of Needs

• Maria Montessori
• Erik Erikson
• Abraham Maslow
• Lev Vygotsky

Stressed that children learn by using their senses.

• Jean Piaget
• B.F. Skinner
• Lev Vygotsky
• Maria Montessori

Believed that personalities developed through stages

• Erik Erickson
• Jean Piaget
• B.F. Skinner
• Abraham Maslow

The first to study children in a scientific way, focused on how children learn.

• Jean Piaget
• Sigmund Freud
• Maria Montessori
• Lev Vygotsky

Believed that both biological development and cultural experience influenced children's ability to think and learn

• Abraham Maslow
• Lev Vygotsky
• Maria Montessori
• Erik Erikson

Positive action brought positive results, negative actions brought negative results

• B.F Skinner
• Lev Vygotsky
• Sigmund Freud
• Jean Piaget

The idea that early experiences affect adult life has profound importance for anyone caring for a child

• Sigmund Freud
• Maria Montessori
• Jean Piaget
• Erik Erikson

Children need to be given objects to manipulate so they can exercise their sensory learning.

• B.F. Skinner
• Jean Piaget
• Maria Montessori
• Lev  Vygotsky

Children should be given learning tasks that are suitable for their stage of thinking

• Jean Piaget
• Sean John
• Abraham Maslow
• B.F. Skinner

Children should have many opportunities for social interaction to develop intellectually

• Sigmund Freud
• Lev Vygotsky
• Erik Erikson
• Jean Piage