Fowler Stages

Question 1

Stage 0 - Primal or Undifferentiated

Answer 1

Birth to 2 years

Characterized by an early learning of the safety of their environment

Question 2

Stage 2 Intuitive Projective

Answer 2

3 to 7 years

Characterized by the psyches unprotected exposure to unconscious and marked by a relative fluidity of thought patterns

Question 3

Stage 2 Mythical- Literal

Answer 3

7 to 11 years

Have strong belief in the injustice and reciprocity of the universe - metaphors and symbolic language are often misunderstood

Question 4

Stage 3 - Synthetic - Conventional

Answer 4

12 to Adulthood

Conforming to religious authority and the development of a personal identity

Question 5

Stage 4 - Individuative - Reflective

Answer 5

Mid twenties to late thirties

Angst and struggle

Individual takes personal responsibility for his or her beliefs and feelings

Question 6

Stage 5 - Conjunctive

Answer 6

Middle age/mid-life crisis

Acknowledges paradox and transcendence relating reality behind symbols of inherited systems

Question 7

Stage 6 - Universalizing

Answer 7

Rarely achieved

Individual would treat any person with compassion as he or she views people as from a universal community