Child Development Theorists

1. Theorists For
Child
Development

3. What is a theory

4. Physical
Development

5. Arnold Gesell Physical
Development

6. Task Milestones

7. What is Cognition?

8. Jean Piaget (1896 –
1980)
https://www.verywellmind.com/jean-piaget-biography-
1896-1980-2795549

9. Piaget’s 4
Stages of
Cognitive
Development
The sensorimotor stage:
This is the first stage of
development and lasts from
birth to approximately two
years old. At this point in
development, children know
the world primarily through
their senses and motor
movements.
The Preoperational Stage:
The second stage of
development lasts from the
ages of two to seven and is
characterized by the
development of language and
the emergence of symbolic
play. Using objects to
represent other objects.
The Concrete Operational
Stage:
The third stage of cognitive
development lasts from the
age of seven to
approximately eleven. At this
point logical thought
emerges but children still
struggle with abstract and
theoretical thinking.
The Formal Operation
Stage:
In the forth and final stage
of cognitive development,
lasting from age 12 and into
adulthood, children become
much more adept at abstract
thought and deductive
reasoning.

10. Task : Jean Piaget
(1896 – 1980)
https://www.verywellmind.com
/jean-piaget-biography-1896-
1980-2795549

11. Noam Chomsky
(1928 -)

12. Jerome
Bruner
1915 - 2016

13. https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=7Cgpfw4z8cw
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=sA6YKPhVhZ0

16. Albert Bandura (1925 - )
Social learning theory

18. John Bowlby (1907
– 1990)

19. Attachment Theory
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-
attachment-theory-2795337

20. Maternal
Deprivation
https://www.learning-theories.com/attachment-
theory-bowlby.html

21. The lasting impact
of Early Attachment

22. https://www.verywellmind.com
/what-is-attachment-theory-
2795337