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Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist
Alfred Adler.
Alfred Adler
Austrian psychiatrist
Neil Postman
American educator, media theorist, and social critic
G. Stanley Hall.
G. Stanley Hall
American psychologist
Erik Erikson
American psychoanalyst
Lawrence Kohlberg
American psychologist
Arnold Gesell
American psychologist
Jerome Bruner
American psychologist
Melanie Klein
British psychologist
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician
T. Berry Brazelton
American pediatrician
James Comer
American child psychiatrist
E. Mavis Hetherington
Canadian-born developmental psychologist
Louise Bates Ames
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