Developmental stages in general and Piaget's stages in particular have given rise to
considerable controversy. Much of this controversy revolves around the responses that have …

Skill theory provides tools for predicting developmental sequences and synchronies in any
domain at any point in development by integrating behavioral and cognitive-developmental …

As adults we believe that our knowledge of our own psychological states is substantially
different from our knowledge of the psychological states of others: First-person knowledge …

Folk psychology, the naive understanding of mental state concepts, requires a model of how
people ascribe mental states to themselves. Competent speakers associate a distinctive …

Reviews recent advances in personality theory and research. L. Kohlberg's (1981) 6 stages
of moral development are discussed in relation to relevant assessment problems and …

Three constructivist paradigms are distinguished. Exogenous constructivism (rooted in a
mechanistic metaphor) emphasizes the reconstruction of structures preformed in the …

Beyond modularity attempts a synthesis of Fodor's anticonstructivist nativism and Piaget's
antinativist constructivism. Contra Fodor, I argue that:(1) the study of cognitive development …

This book, a review of the psychological literatures with allied traditions in ethics,
emphasizes parenting and educational strategies for influencing moral behavior, reasoning …

The authors have grouped the theories into three classical" families" which differ in their
views relative to the prime motives underlying human nature. They show how theories are …

This monograph reformulates developmental stages in terms of a hierar-chy of knowing
levels derived from an underlying interactive model of know-ing [Bickhard, 1978, 1980a]. It is …