Student name: Ashley Villarreal

LP3 CHILD DEVELOPMENT THEORIES SCAVENGER HUNT

Instructions: Through this activity you will review what you have learned about the theories of child
development and the people who developed those theories. You are to look for the theory or theorist
associated with each of the descriptions listed in the Scavenger Hunt. The same theory/theorist may be
used more than once. Use the information provided in the web links in the learning plan, as well as the
reading in Chapter 1 of the text. Each item answered correctly is worth 2 points.
Scavenger Hunt Items:

Score

Place the name of the theory or theorist below the description

1. Name the theorist who describes development from a psychosexual perspective, and
describes personality as comprising three parts the id, ego and superego?

Sigmund Freud
2. Name one of the theorists who launched the normative approach, which measures of
behavior are taken on large numbers of children and age-related averages are computed
to represent typical development.
Gesell
3. Name the theory that includes eight stages of development. Each stage is
characterized by a different conflict that must be resolved by the individual. When the
environment makes new demands on people, the conflicts arise.
Eriksons Theory of Psychosocial Development
4. What theory identifies four developmental stages and the processes by which
children progress through them? The four stages are: (1) Sensorimotor stage ,(2) Preoperational stage, (3) Concrete operations and (4) Formal operations.
Cognitive-Developmental Theory
5. Name the theorist who proved his theory of classical conditioning using hungry
dogs?
Pavlov
6. What theorist describes how children learn to adapt through the twin processes of
assimilation and accommodation in order to achieve a state of equilibrium?

Piaget
7. Traditional behaviorist who believed that adults can mold childrens behavior by
carefully controlling stimulus-response associations. John Watson

8. What theory describes the mind as a symbol-manipulating system through which

information flows?

Information Processing Theory

9. What theorist views the child as developing within a complex system of
relationships at different levels from microsystem to mesosystem to exosystem to
macrosystem?
Bronfenbrenners
10. What pediatrician developed educational programs based on a philosophy that
emphasizes childrens natural curiosity and self-directed involvement in learning
experiences?
Marie Montessori
11. What theorist might give this example: An infant will develop a sense of trust only
if the parent or caregiver is responsive and consistent with the basic needs being meet.
The need for care and food must be met with comforting regularity. The infant must
first form a trusting relationship with the parent or caregiver, otherwise a sense of
mistrust will develop. Babies who are not securely attached to their mothers are less
cooperative and more aggressive in their interactions with their mothers. As they grow
older, they become less competent and sympathetic with peers. They also explore their
environment with less enthusiasm and persistence.
Erikson
12. What theorist emphasizes the importance of observing and modeling the behaviors,
attitudes, and emotional reactions of others? Most human behavior is learned
observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how
new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a
guide for action.
Bandura

13. Identify the theorist who viewed cognitive development as a socially mediated
process whereby culture and knowledge are transmitted to children by adults through
social interaction. Learning occurs within the zone of proximal development the
range of skill that the child could not perform alone, but can master with the guidance
of adults or more skilled peers.

Piaget
14. This theorist described a hierarchy of essential needs that each child must have
met in order to develop optimally.
Maslow
15. B.F. Skinner developed this form of behaviorism which uses reinforcement and
punishment to increase or decrease behaviors.
Operant Conditioning
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