Theorists and Theories
- John Bowlby, Harry Harlow, Mary Ainsworth: Attachment theory
- Urie Bronfenbrenner: The social ecology of human development
- Jerome Bruner: Cognitive (constructivist); learning theory / narrative construction of reality
- Erik Erikson: Erikson's stages of psychosocial development
- Sigmund Freud: Psychosexual development
- Jerome Kagan: A pioneer of developmental psychology
- Jean Matter Mandler: Early development – theory of early conceptual thinking
- Lawrence Kohlberg: Kohlberg's stages of moral development
- Jean Piaget: Theory of cognitive development, genetic epistemology
- Lev Vygotsky: Social constructivism, zone of proximal development
- Reuven Feuerstein: Structural Cognitive Modifiability
- Judith Rich Harris: Modular theory of social development
- Eleanor Gibson: Ecological psychology
- Robert Kegan: Adult development
- Watson, Skinner, Bandura: Behaviorism and Social learning theory
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