Developmental Timeline Assignment Zak Piper

  • Birth

  • Took first steps

    Piaget's sensorimotor stage coordinating movements
  • Said first word "no"

    Piaget Sensorimotor stage developing language
  • Attended School for the First Time (avoided getting into trouble)

    Kohlberg's preconventional moral reasoning learning how to avoid punishment
  • Chose to attend church for the first time

    Kohlberg's conventional level chose out of satisfying grandmother's approval
  • Chose to get baptized (6th grade)

    Kohlberg's Postconventional level chose out of own desire to do what is right
  • first date

    Kohlberg's conventional level seeking approval of fellow students rather than own standards
  • Graduated High School

    Formal-Operational Stage cognitive maturity
  • First job as youth minister

    Kohlberg's postconventional level based on personal morals that are different from many others
  • Got Married

    Kohlberg's Postconventional Level basing choice off of own moral standards of goodness
  • Retirement

    Piaget's formal-operational stage realization that there is another way to live life other than working forever
  • Death