9.2 Lifespan Theories

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

  • Discuss Freud’s theory of psychosexual development
  • Describe the major tasks of child and adult psychosocial development according to Erikson
  • Discuss Piaget’s view of cognitive development and apply the stages to understanding childhood cognition
  • Describe Kohlberg’s theory of moral development
  • Compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of major developmental theories

There are many theories regarding how babies and children grow and develop into happy, healthy adults. We explore several of these theories in this section.

This lesson has no exercises.

The content of this course has been taken from the free Psychology textbook by Openstax