Summarize the five developmental perspectives (e.g., biological, psychodynamic, etc.) and list which theories belong with each perspective

What will be an ideal response?


A good answer will include the following key points:
• Biological development is determined by biological forces — Maturational theory and ethological theory.
• Psychodynamic development is determined by how a child resolves conflicts at different ages — Freud's theory and Erikson's psychosocial theory.
• Learning development is determined by a child's environment — Skinner's operant conditioning and Bandura's social cognitive theory.
• Cognitive-Developmental: development reflects children's efforts to understand the world — Piaget's cognitive development theory.
• Contextual: development is influenced by immediate and more distant environments, which influence each other — Vygotsky's theory.

Psychology

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