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Article: Stages of Development
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- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
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Stages of Development
FREUD
ERIKSON
PIAGET
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Stage theories of development are sometimes called discontinuity theories. The premise is that development occurs in discontinuous stages: During a particular stage, a child will go through no significant changes in his or her abilities or capacities, and behavior will remain fairly stable within that stage. Later development will take the individual to a more mature stage, at which point there is again a kind of stability. This view is in direct contrast to continuity theories, which describe development as a continuous process without stages or phases.
FREUD
Freud presented one of the first stage theories of development, with ...
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