Vygotsky - look at the zone of proximal development and 'scaffolding'.
John B Watson - behaviour psychologist. Check out the Little Albert experiment (videos available if you google)
Ivan Pavlov - expanded on Watson's work.
BF Skinner - operant conditioning
Albert Bandura - social learning theory/Bobo doll experiment (videos available)
Sigmund Freud - personality
Abraham Maslow - motivation and personality/heirarchy of needs
Hope they start you off.
As for frameworks, the EYFS framework, for example... How does this incorparate elements of theories? So after looking at Vygotsky's zone of proximal development, for example, you can see that the eyfs focuses on working closely with children, observing and planning for their development.
Lot of reading to this task!
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