Theorists and Their Contributions

Match the following statements with the correct theorists:

• Vygotsky

• Theorized that the social and cultural environment shapes human cognitive development.

• Piaget

• Recognized that children do not think like adults.

• Kohlberg

• Identified three levels of thinking that people go through in making moral decisions.

• Bandura

• Theorist who believed that what happens early in life affects a person for years to come.

• Skinner

• Believed how a person responds is based on personal reaction and how he or she processes information.

Who believed that what happens early in life affects a person for years to come?

• Bandura

• Erikson

• Freud

• Gilligan

Theorized that the social and cultural environment shapes human cognitive development.

• Vygotsky

• Piaget

• Skinner

• Pavlov

Believed how a person responds is based on personal reaction and how he or she processes information.

• Freud

• Erikson

• Bandura

• Kohlberg

Recognized that children do not think like adults.

• Piaget

• Skinner

• Erikson

• Freud

Identified three levels of thinking that people go through in making moral decisions.

• Kohlberg

• Gilligan

• Bandura

• Erikson

Theorist who used repetition of behavior with reinforcement gradually being removed.

• Skinner

• Pavlov

• Freud

• Erikson

Theorized that all humans develop through experimentation with objects.

• Piaget

• Vygotsky

• Bandura

• Gilligan

Explains how children are active in their own development and learning.

• Piaget

• Erikson

• Bandura

• Vygotsky

Expanded on Kohlberg’s theory by considering how women and girls make moral decisions.

• Gilligan

• Erikson

• Freud

• Skinner