Child Development Theories
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Child Development Theories: Lev Vygotsky
Lev Vygotsky was another psychologist who believed children learn about their world through physical interaction. Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory...
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Child Development Theories: John Watson
John Watson was an American psychologist who is generally recognised as the ‘father’ of the psychological school of...
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Child Development Theories: Carl Rogers
Carl Rogers was an American psychologist and one of the founders of the humanistic, person-centred approach. He is...
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Child Development Theories: Urie Bronfenbrenner
Urie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian-born American developmental psychologist whose most significant work was his ecological systems theory of...
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Child Development Theories: David Kolb
David Kolb is an American educational theorist perhaps best known for his theory of experiential learning. Another aspect...
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Child Development Theories: Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)created a psychoanalytic theory of personality which suggests human behaviour is the outcome of interactions and...
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Child Development Theories: Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura developed a social learning theory which proposes three regulatory systems to control behaviour. His research analysed...
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Child Development Theories: Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget‘s cognitive development theory offers a full description of the nature and development of human intelligence. Usually...
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Child Development Theories: Howard Gardner
Dr. Howard Gardner, a professor of education at Harvard University, developed his groundbreaking theory of multiple intelligences in...
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Child Development Theories: Abraham Maslow
Psychologist Abraham Maslow considered most theories of human motivation too limited because they rarely strayed beyond basic physiological...
