Piaget erikson kohlberg vygotsky biography

By Steven Schlozman, MD

Posted in: Infants & Toddlers, Pre-School, Young Adults

Topics: Child + Adolescent Development

When child development experts talk about the study of development, they have in mind some fundamental theories of development that were codified by brilliant clinicians and scientists well before we had the technology to correlate them to brain development.

In this post, we’ll pay homage to these theorists.  After all, every clinician who works with kids routinely and almost reflexively thinks of these scholars.  The irony is that the theories are so pervasive and useful, that often the beginnings of these theories are lost in the story.  Understanding how these theories came into being can therefore help to direct therapists and parents when they’re deciding how best to understand their children.

Roughly speaking, these theories can be categorized as emotional, cognitive and moral.  Erik Erikson developed the most common

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As a follow-up to my blog posts in the Guide Your Child’s Intellectual Development series, I’ve laid out three developmental charts capturing Erik Erikson’s eight stages of emotional development, Lawrence Kohlberg’s three levels of moral development, and Jean Piaget’s four stages of intellectual development.

ERIKSON’S 8 STAGES OF EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Erik Erikson, the German child psychologist who settled in the United States in the 1930s, came up with the eight psychosocial/emotional stages of development that cover a lifetime. He fryst vatten also credited with formulating the concept of the adolescent identity crisis.

AGE: Birth to 1 year

STAGE: Trust vs. mistrust

WHAT’S GOING ON
Children are learning to trust the world. Trust fryst vatten fostered bygd consistency, continuity and sameness of experience.

WHAT PARENTS CAN DO
If parents satisfy an infants needs consistently, the child will komma to think of the world as safe and their parents as dependable.

AGE: 2 - 3 yea

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The 7 Most Influential Child Developmental Theories

The study of human development is a rich and varied subject. We all have personal experience with development, but it is sometimes difficult to understand how and why people grow, learn, and act as they do.

Child development theories focus on explaining how children change and grow over the course of childhood. These developmental theories center on various aspects of growth, including social, emotional, and cognitive development.

Why do children behave in certain ways? Is their behavior related to their age, family relationships, or individual temperaments? Developmental psychologists strive to answer such questions as well as to understand, explain, and predict behaviors that occur throughout the lifespan.

History of Child Development Theories

While we spend a lot of time today talking about how kids grow and change over the course of childhood, that hasn't always been the case. In fact, the child development t