Developmental stage theories
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In Developmental psychology, a stage is a distinct phase in an individual's development. Many theories in psychology characterize development in terms of stages:
- Erik Erikson's stages of psychosocial development expanding on Freud's psychosexual stages, he defined eight stages that describes how individuals relate to their social world.
- James W. Fowler's stages of faith development theory
- Sigmund Freud's Psychosexual stages to describe the progression of an individual's unconscious desires.
- Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development to describe how individuals develop in reasoning about morals.
- Jane Loevinger, Stages of ego development
- Margaret Mahler's psychoanalytic developmental theory contained three phases regarding the child's object relations.
- Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development to describe how children reason and interact with their surroundings.
- James Marcia's theory of identity achievement and four identity statuses
Human development: biological - psychological
Stages: Infancy | Childhood | Adolescence | Adulthood - Early adulthood | Middle adulthood | Late adulthood
Child development | Youth development | Ageing & Senescence
Theorists-theories: John Bowlby-attachment | Jean Piaget-cognitive | Lawrence Kohlberg-moral | Sigmund Freud-psychosexual | Erik Erikson-psychosocial
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