Q Name __________________________________________ Date ____________________ Handout 1-3: Developmental Theories Directions: Match Column “A” with its corresponding answer in Column “B.” Column A 1. _______ Cognitive development. 2. _______ Psychosocial theory. 3. _______ One of the first theories to emphasize the influence of the sociocultural context on development. 4. _______ Focuses on how a developing person is embedded in a series of interacting systems. 5. _______ Information-processing theory. 6. Developed the five stages of psychosexual development. 7. ________ Studied operant conditioning 8. ________ Observational learning 9. _______ Based his social cognitive theory on a complex view of reward, punishment, and imitation. 10. _______ According to this theory, how well people adapt depends on the match between their abilities and the demands put on them by the environment. 11. _______ Aging is viewed in the context of the rest of the life span. Column B

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