Attachment and Morality: Developmental Themes with Different Values

Abstract

The stage theories of personality development, such as those of Piaget, Freud, and Erikson, are not currently popular, in part because of misunderstandings about the supposed restrictions of timing and of confines of developmental stages. But the stage theorists did draw attention to newly appearing, qualitatively different cognitive, emotional, and behavioural systems of interaction, which come into being sequentially as children grow up.