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COMPARATIVE SUMMARY OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL THEORIES

FREUDIAN
Oral Anal Phallic Latency Genital
STAGES
VIII
Maturity
INTEGRITY VS
(60 above)
DESPAIR
VII
Adulthood GENERATIVITY
(35 to 60 years) VS SELF-
ABSORPTION
VI
Early Adulthood
INTIMACY VS
(10 to 35 years)
ISOLATION
V
Adolescence IDENTITY VS
ROLE
(12 to18years) CONFUSION
IV
Late childhood INDUSTRY
(6 years to puberty) VS
INFERIORITY
III
Middle Childhood
INITIATIVE VS
(3 to 6 yars)
GUILT
II
Early Childhood (1 AUTONOMY
½ to 3years) VS SHAME/
DOUBT
I
TRUST
Infancy
VS
(Birth to 1 ½ years)
MISTRUS
T
ERICKSON’S Sensori- Formal
Pre- Concrete Formal Formal STAGES BY
PSYCHO-SOCIAL motor Pre-Operational Operati
Operational Operational Operational Operational PIAGET
STAGES Stage onal
STAGES OF INFANCY TO EARLY
LATE CHILDHOOD ADOLESCENCE EARLY ADULTHOOD
DEVELOPMENT CHILDHOOD
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 Learning to walk  Learning physical  Accepting changes  Maintaining
 Learning to talk skills necessary for in one’s physique physical health and
 Learning to take games and using the body well-being
Physical Skills
solid foods effectively
 Elimination of body
wastes
 Getting ready to read  Developing  Preparing for an  Getting started in
fundamental skills n economic career with an occupation
reading, writing, and knowledge gained
Intellectual Skills
calculating from academic
 Developing concepts exposure
necessary
 Learning sex  Learning to get along  Achieving new and  Learning to live with
differences and with age-mates mature social a marriage partner
sexual modesty  Beginning to develop relations with age or independently
appropriate mates of both sexes  Selecting a mate
masculine or  Achieving a  Taking on civic
Social Skills feminine social roles masculine or responsibility
 Developing attitudes feminine social roles  Finding a congenial
towards social  Desiring, accepting social group
groups and and achieving
institutions socially responsible
behavior
 Learning to  Building a  Achieving emotional  Starting a family
distinguish right and wholesome attitude independence from  Rearing children
wrong and beginning toward oneself as a parents and other  Managing a home
t develop a growing individual adults
conscience  Developing a  Preparing for
conscience, a sense marriage and family
Emotional Skills
of morality and a life
scale of values  Acquiring a set of
 Achieving personal values and an ethical
independence system as a guide to
behavior-depending
on ideology
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