Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint, First Canadian Edition

E. Mavis Hetherington, University of Virginia
Ross D. Parke, University of California
Mark Schmuckler, University of Toronto at Scarborough

Themes and Theories of Child Development

Key Persons Quiz

Match the key people to their descriptions.


1				The developmental researcher who advocated for the importance of maturation in children's development.


2				An American researcher who observed the influence of environment on children's behaviour; he conditioned an 11-month-old infant to fear furry animals.


3				The Russian physiologist who developed the concept and procedure of classical conditioning.


4				A famous European who stressed that a child's experience with parents in the first five years of life is an important determinant in later personality development.


5				The originator of an environmental, contextual theory of development that includes five environmental systems.


6				A psychoanalytic theorist who proposed that development entails eight psychosocial stages.


7				The individual who proposed the principle of natural selection.

Answer choices for questions 1 through 7

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