Piaget's Four Stages Of AP Psychological Research

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Joey Sopko Mr. Ross AP Psychology 20 November 2011 Essay B No matter how you say you do not want to be like your parents, in is inevitable that you eventually develop into something similar to them. This has been proven through years of research. There are many reasons why this will happen. Your cognitive, moral, and social development will be what morphs you to resemble your parents. The cognitive reason why we become like our parents can be explained by Piaget’s Four Stages of Cognitive Development. He states that children build schemas, and a teenager may have a schema that their parents are wrong or not what the teenager wants to be. Piaget then states that teenagers can assimilate, or change their existing schemas, by interpreting new experiences. By assimilating their existing schemas they may determine that their parents are what they want to be. The stage Piaget would have put this type of teenager in is the Concrete Operational Stage.…show more content…
Kohlberg explains how adolescents try to refine their sense of identity and try out different “selves”. He states that the search for an identity lasts past the teen years and into early adulthood. The reason could be that the teenager is used to their parents choosing what they are going to be, that they just want to ignore the parents and do what they want to do and “find” themselves. The teenager has decided that they have seen the life their parents have and has not yet decided to choose that life and is rebellious to it because they want to experience other lives. The stage that this most fits in is the Conventional Phase in Kohlberg’s Moral ladder. This stage is typically experienced by early adolescence. This stage focuses on the social approval part of
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