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Compare And Contrast Piaget And Kohlberg

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From the Cognitive perspective is Albert Bandura, Jean Piaget, and Lawrence Kohlberg. Albert Bandura is most famous for his Bobo Doll experiment, within this experiment children ages 3-6 watched and adult hit, kick, and throw a blown up doll. The researchers then tested to see if their behaviour became more aggressive. Jean Piaget invented the Cognitive Theory which entailed the idea that human development/behavior were the product of certain consistent and reliable patterns of interaction with the environment. Lawrence Kohlberg created the theory of moral development in children, which states that morality starts from the early childhood years and can be affected by several factors. William James, B.F. Skinner, John Watson, and Ivan Pavlov were apart of the Behavioral perspective. William James studied how …show more content…

John Watson is well know for the "Little Albert" experiments on fear conditioning, the conclusion of the study was that children had no fear until they were behaviorally conditioned and that parents could shape the behavior of their children through stimulus-response conditioning. Ivan Pavlov was originally studying salivation and digestion and stumbled upon classical conditioning while he was experimenting on dogs. Classical conditioning is a form of learning in which a previously neutral stimulus, when paired with a natural reflex-producing stimulus, will begin to produce a learned response, even when it is presented by itself. Apart of the Humanistic perspective was Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers. Abraham Maslow created the Hierarchy of Needs theory, which is the idea that different needs must be satisfied before one can move on to something more complex, as well and the concept of self-actualization, which simply put is a way to explain what drives us in our

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