Comparison of Developmental Models

Stages

Piaget

Kegan

Kohlberg

Fowler

Infancy Sensorimotor 0 - Incorporative   Undifferentiated Faith
Play Age Preoperational 1 - Impulsive

SinglePoint/Atomistic

1 -Heteronomous

Punishment/obedience orientation

Intuitive-Projective Faith
School Age Concrete operations 2 - Imperial

Durable category

2 - Individualism, instrumental purpose and exchange

Instrumental orientation

Mythic-Literal Faith
Adolescence Early formal operations 3 - Interpersonal

Cross-Categorical

"Traditionalism"

3 - Mutual interpersonal expectations, relationships, and conformity

Interpersonal concordance orientation

Synthetic-Conventional Faith
Young Adulthood Full formal operations 4 - Institutional

System/Complex

"Modernism"

4 - Social system and conscience

Societal orientation

Individuative-Reflective Faith
Middle Adulthood [Post-formal] 5 - Interindividual

Trans-System/Trans-Complex

"Post-Modernism"

5 - Social contract or utility and individual rights

Principled orientation - social contract, individual rights

Conjunctive Faith
Late Adulthood     6 - Universal ethical principles

Principled orientation - universal ethical principles

Universalizing Faith