Problem
Textbook: Child Development: The Early Years
a) What is a theory?
b) What is a critical period? Provide one example.
c) What are the three components of personality, according to Freud?
d) Identify and explain the first two stages of Erikson's Psychosocial Development theory
e) Identify and explain the two types of reinforcement.
f) What is the difference between negative reinforcement and punishment?
g) What occurs in the sensorimotor stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development theory?
h) What is the Ecological theory? Identify and explain the five systems.
i) What is the focus of Vygotsky's theory?
j) Identify and explain the three dominant themes in child development.