Jean Piaget was a psychologist who concluded that people developed by connecting to life with actions. He went into more detail about his theory by having steps. There are four steps to his theory which was …show more content…
What Kohlberg focused on from Piaget's research was the idea of moral development. Moral development is a person's beliefs on right and wrong. Kohlberg did his own research by asking people of all ages questions that would explain a person's morality. This led to Kohlberg creating his own steps that mainly focused on moral development. These steps are Preconventional, Conventional, and Postconventional. There are only 4 steps in Kohlberg, but steps focus on the moral mindset of a person and not their actions. Kohlberg and Piaget have a similar idea of development which influenced other psychologists to study development.
Kohlberg and Piaget shared a similar idea of development, but there is someone else who saw development in a different way. This person is Eric Erickson. Eric Erickson was a theorist who believed, just like the two psychologist before, that people goes through development stages. However, the differences was that he focused on social development predominantly. Erickson believed each stage came with an assignment that needed to be solved. The assignments for young children would be based on struggles with trust, self-reliance, self-motivation, and more. The assignments range from children to