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| Psychosocial:Life is a series of stages through which each person passes, with each stage growing from the previous ones. |
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| Pavlov, Skinner, and Bandura |
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| Behaviorist:Person is vessel to be filled by carefully designed experiences; through experience, behavior is modified or changed. |
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| Cognitive:Describes the structure and development of human thought processes and how those processes affect the way a person understands and percieves the world. |
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| Sociocultural:Focuses on how values, beliefs, skills, and traditions are transmitted to the next generation. |
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| Ecological:Development greatly influenced by forces outside of the child. |
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| Multiple Intelligences:There are eight basic intelligences. |
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| Maturation:Process of physical and mental growth determined by heredity; genetically determined from conception. |
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| Humanist: Centered on people's needs, goals and successes. |
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| Play: Play identified as six different types; as children develop, their play looks very different. |
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| Brain-based research: Brain operates on "use it or lose it" principle. |
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