Human Development Theories

Presents a model emphasizing the challenges and tasks presented across one's lifespan as key to understanding human development

• Erikson

• Piaget

• Kohlberg

• Vygotsky

Employs the construction of schema, assimilation, accommodation and equilibration

• Vygotsky

• Piaget

• Kohlberg

• Erikson

Emphasizes the role of culture in promoting certain types of activities

• Piaget

• Vygotsky

• Erikson

• Kohlberg

Strongly emphasized on the stages of development (sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational and formal operational)

• Piaget

• Vygotsky

• Erikson

• Kohlberg

Believes that human development is the result of interactions between people and their social environment

• Kohlberg

• Erikson

• PIaget

• Vygotsky

"Learning precedes development" supports whose theory?

• Piaget

• Vygotsky

• Erikson

• Kohlberg

States that we progress through three levels of moral thinking that build on our cognitive development

• Kohlberg

• Vygotsky

• Piaget

• Erikson

Includes stages in thinking about right and wrong that everyone goes through as one grows up

• Piaget

• Kohlberg

• Erikson

• Vygotsky

Preconventional, Conventional and Postconventional levels are present in whose theory?

• PIaget

• Vygotsky

• Erikson

• Kohlberg

Humans pass through stages of development with each presenting the individual with a unique developmental task or crisis to resolve

• Erikson

• Piaget

• Kohlberg

• Vygotsky