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| Developed an ecological systems theory. |
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| Big-time, major behaviorist. Believed in Operative Conditioning. |
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| This is the idea that a stimulus response is based on reinforcement. |
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| A developmental approach that emphasises the adaptive (or survival) value of behavior and it's evolutionary history. |
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| The ethologist who gave us critical and sensitive periods in development. |
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| Believed that children have an inborn ability for orderly, healthy growth without outside interference. |
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| The focus of the social learning approach. |
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| He developed a theory of cognitive development. |
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| Critical or sensitive period |
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| The time during which an organism is biologically prepared to acquire sertain behaviors if the environment is appropriate. |
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| Conducted the first studies on adolescence. |
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| Ecological systems theory |
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| This theory views the child as developing within a complex system of relationships affected by multiple levels of the environment. |
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| A social learning theorist. |
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| Psychoanalitic Perspective |
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| This perspective on development emphasizes innate sexual and aggresive drives. |
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| Vygotsky's approach to child development. |
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| This approach to cognitive development views the mind as a system for manipulating symbols. |
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| The Normative Approach to Child Development |
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| Emphasized averages representing a typical child's abilities at different ages. |
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| Cognitive-development Theory |
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| This stage theory is characterized by a qualitatively distinct way of reasoning about the world. |
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| He created the psychoanalytic approach. |
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| Russian theorist who studied classical conditioning. |
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| A developmental concept that children are neither inately good nor evil, but are shapped by the experiences they have in their lives. |
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| He developed the first successful intelegence test. |
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