Theorists

My theory about moral decisions goes through three stages ending with the one when people make decisions based on what is morally right or wrong.

• Howard Gardner

• Abraham Maslow

• Jean Piaget

• Erik Erikson

• Lawrence Kohlberg

I was a medical doctor in Italy and I believed that freedom for children enable them to do things independently.

• Howard Gardner

• Abraham Maslow

• Jean Piaget

• Erik Erikson

• Maria Montessori

My Hierarchy of Need Theory states that humans needs must be met at more basic levels before they move up to more complex levels.

• Howard Gardner

• Abraham Maslow

• Jean Piaget

• Erik Erikson

• Maria Montessori

I created the Multiple Intelligences Theory which says that there are  eight distinct forms of intelligence that everyone possesses to some degree.

• Howard Gardner

• Abraham Maslow

• Jean Piaget

• Erik Erikson

• Maria Montessori

My theory states that children learn cognitively at four distinct levels.

• Howard Gardner

• Abraham Maslow

• Jean Piaget

• Erik Erikson

• Maria Montessori

My theory lists stages people travel through 5 cognitive stages  during their entire lifetime.

• Howard Gardner

• Abraham Maslow

• Jean Piaget

• Erik Erikson

• Maria Montessori

Argued that when a child's actions have positive results, they will be repeated. Negative results will make the actions stop.

• Sigmund Freud

• Lev Vygotsky

• B. F. Skinner

• Urie Bronfenbrenner

• Albert Bandura

Believed that personality develops through a series of stages. Experiences in childhood profoundly affect adult life.

• Sigmund Freud

• Lev Vygotsky

• B. F. Skinner

• Urie Bronfenbrenner

• Albert Bandura

Said that children learn by imitating others. Disagreed with Skinner. Pointed out that although environment shapes behavior, behavior also affects environment.

• Sigmund Freud

• Lev Vygotsky

• B. F. Skinner

• Urie Bronfenbrenner

• Albert Bandura

Wrote that biological development and cultural experience influence children's ability to learn. Social contact is essential to intellectual development.

• Sigmund Freud

• Lev Vygotsky

• B. F. Skinner

• Urie Bronfenbrenner

• Albert Bandura