| A | B |
| Howard Gardner | Believed in multiple forms of intelligence |
| Maria Montessori | children learn best when allowed to explore, do as little as possible for children |
| T Berry Brazelton | created a scale of assessment for newborns |
| Development proceeds from head to toe | Child learns to lift head and turn before learning to walk |
| developmental milestone | Key skills used to check a child's progress |
| hand eye coordination | The ability to move the hands and fingers precisely in relation to what is seen |
| physical development | changes in height, length, use of large and small muscles as well as balance and coordination |
| emotional development | ability to identify various emotions, and to control them as needed |
| social development | ability to get along with others and conform to the guidelines of society |
| intellectual development | changes in reasoning, ability to manipulate fact and figures, ability to read and write |
| Dr Benjamin Spock | recognized that parenting was hard work |
| Rudolph Dreikurs | studied stubborn children, stressed natural and logical consequences |
| Abraham Maslow | arrange human needs into a heirarchy, said lower level needs must be met before higher levels could be achieved |
| Eric Erickson | saw life as a series of challenges, contrast between two things such as trust vs mistrust |