This document summarizes several major theories of child development: - Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory focused on psychosexual stages of development. - Jean Piaget's cognitive development theory outlined stages of cognitive ability from infancy through childhood. - Lawrence Kohlberg described six stages of moral development grouped in three levels. - Lev Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory emphasized social learning and scaffolding of skills. - Urie Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory examined biological and environmental influences on development. - Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory defined stages across the entire lifespan.

1. THEORIES OF CHILD
DEVELOPMENT
SIGMUND FREUD
“Psychoanalytic
Theory”
LEV VYGOTZKY
“Socio-cultural
Theory”
ERIK ERICKSON
“Psychosocial Theory
of Development”
URIE
BRONFENBRENNER
“Bio Ecological Theory”
JEAN PIAGET
“Cognitive
Development Theory”
LAWRENCE
KHOLBERG
“Moral Development”

2. FREUD
PIAGET
-the theory of psychosexual
development describes how
personality develops during
childhood.
The child has ability
to choose from
right to wrong is
tied higher ability to
understand and
reason logically.
- children progress through
a series of four key stages
of cognitive development
marked by shifts in how
they understand the world.

3. KHOLBERG
-Kohlberg's theory of
moral development
Outlined six stages
within three
Different levels.
VYGOTZKY
- emerging theory in psycho
logy that looks the important
contribution that society
makes to individual development. He also states the
The child growing
scaffolding and the socratic
and developing body
method.
and the interplay between
immediate family community environment and
the society.

4. BRONFENBRENNER
ERICKSON
-Biological theory as it
represented in empirical
work on families and
their relationship.
-His eight stages span the
entire life course.
Both included interaction w/ other social
groups including schools,
peer groups and other
institutions in the dev’t of
the child.

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