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E. The Role of the Child in Development: do people choose the way they are or do other people make them who they are? Active child v. passive child 1. Learning Theory/Behaviorism: Explores the way the systematic use of rewards and punishments affects the likelihood that the child will or won’t behave in a certain way 2. Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory: Children actively explore their environment and in the process, create their own theories about how the world works. 3. Lev Vygot...