Question

Thirteen-year-old Ryan has begun to challenge many of his parents' values and to express his own set of highly idealistic standards. Compare and contrast the explanations for Ryan's behavior that would be given by Kohlberg and by Erikson.

Answer 1

Answer: That he's moving into a new stage of his life

Explanation:

From Ryan's behavior it's been observed that he's in the third stage known as Post-conventional stage. During this stage, people begin to make moral judgement on individual principals according to Kohlberg. The primary task of adolescence is when they realize their identity, That's, who they really are and building into, this narrates Erikson's believe. From this two theories it could be seen that Ryan is in the stage of Identity vs role confusion and could be seen that he's growing and begins to realize life, this would lead to more behavioral and attitude issues displayed from him.