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

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