COMPARISON CHART OF DEVELOPMENTAL THEORIES

THEORY: MORAL COGNITIVE PSYCHOSEXUAL PSYCHOSOCIAL

DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT
PROPONENT STAGE Lawrence Kohlberg Jean Piaget Sigmund Freud Erik Erikson
(American) (Swiss) (Austrian) (German
American)
AGE
Birth - INFANCY OBEDIENCE/ SENSORIMOTOR ORAL STAGE TRUST VS
11 months (birth to 18 PUNISHMENT STAGE (0-18 months) MISTRUST
months) (Infancy) (0-2 years ) weaning process (birth to 1 year)
<mouth> <Hope>
1 Year PRECONVENTIONAL Id is active
(12 months)
1 ½ Years AUTONOMY VS
(18 months) SHAME & DOUBT
2 years EARLY SELF-INTEREST ANAL STAGE (1 year to 3
(24 months) CHILDHOOD (Pre-School) (18 months – 3 years)
(18 months-6 years) toilet <Will>
years) training
PRECONVENTIONAL <anus>
Ego develops
3 years PRE-
4 years OPERATIONAL PHALLIC STAGE INTIATIVE VS
STAGE (2-6/7 (3-6 years) GUILT
years) Identify with the (3 years to 6
same sex along years)
with the morals – <Purpose>
superego
develops
5 years <genitalia>
6 years CONFORMITY
7 years - LATE & INTERPERSONAL LATENCY INDUSTRY VS
CHILDHOOD ACCORD (Good (6 years-puberty) INFERIORITY
(6 years to 13 Boy/Nice Girl) Sublimation to (6 to 12 years)
years) (School-Age) other activities <Competence>
9 years CONVENTIONAL CONCRETE <no erogenous
10 years AUTHORITY & OPERATIONAL zone>
11 years SOCIAL ORDER (6-7 to 11/12
(School-Age) years)
12 years CONVENTIONAL
13 years SOCIAL CONTRACT FORMAL IDENTITY VS
14 years ADOLESCENCE (Teens) OPERATIONAL ROLE
(13 years to 20 POST (11-12 to CONFUSION
years) CONVENTIONAL adulthood (12-20 years)
15 -19 years <Fidelity>
20 years UNIVERSAL GENITAL STAGE
30 years YOUNG PRINCIPLES (puberty onward) INTIMACY VS
ADULTHOOD (Adulthood) <genitals again> ISOLATIONS
(20 years to 45 (20-40 years)
years) POST <Love>
40 years CONVENTIONAL
45 years MIDDLE AGE GENERATIVITY
(45 years to 65 VS STAGNATION
years) (40-65 years)
<Care>
65 years OLD AGE
(65 years to EGO INTEGRITY
death) VS DESPAIR
(65 years to
death)
<Wisdom>
Prepared by Bryan Paul L. Espinosa