Developmental Theorists

Question 1

Birth to 18 months

• Freud
• Erikson
• Piaget
• Kohlberg

Answer 1

• Freud: “Oral stage”
• Erikson: “Trust versus Mistrust”
• Piaget: Sensorimotor stage (birth to 2)
• Kohlberg: AMORAL

Question 2

18 months to 3 years

• Freud
• Erikson
• Piaget
• Kohlberg

Answer 2

• Freud: ANAL
• Erikson: “Autonomy versus shame and doubt”
• Piaget: Beginning of preoperational (2-7 years)
• Kohlberg: Preconventional: Obedience and punishment

Question 3

3 to 6 years:

• Freud:
• Erikson
• Piaget
• Kohlberg

Answer 3

• Freud: PHALLIC
• Erikson: Initiative versus guilt
• Piaget: Still in preoperational (2-7 years)
• Kohlberg: Preconventional: Instrumental Relativist Orientaiton

Question 4

6 to 11 years

• Freud
• Erikson
• Piaget
• Kohlberg

Answer 4

• Freud: LATENCY
• Erikson: Industry versus inferiority
• Piaget: Concrete operational (7 to adolescence)
• Kohlberg: Conventional: Interpersonal concordance orientation, law and order orientation

Question 5

11 to 18 years*Freud

• Erikson
• Piaget
• Kohlberg

Answer 5

• Freud: Phallic /genital
• Erikson: Identity versus role confusion
• Piaget: Formal operational
• Kohlberg: Postconventional: Social contract legalistic, universal ethical principle

Question 6

Who does Noam contradict? What does he say?

Answer 6

He most directly contradicts ERIKSON

because he believes that early teens are more concerned with group cohesion than identity.