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This first chapter on the second portion of the book – on a 25-step Neo-Eriksonian stage/sub-stage model – first describes the empirical (replication) crisis in psychology and argues that grand theories, such as Erikson’s, could provide an axis to inform the crisis and help toward resolving it beyond the measures in the field currently being taken. The chapter reviews the author’s Neo-Piagetian/Neo-Eriksonian model in order to illustrate its utility in these regards. Then, it reviews the current literature on both Piaget and Erikson. That literature is sparse compared to the research in the past on the stage theories involved, but there are some areas still being quite studied. For Piaget, this concerns the intermediaries in and mechanisms of change, such as executive function, although this literature is not reviewed here. For Erikson, it concerns the identity period in adolescence, which has a vast and ongoing literature, including in test construction and use. The chapter turns to stage concepts in both the Piagetian and Eriksonian traditions, and part of the difficulty with these stage theories is that their stage conceptions are outdated. The chapter describes one attempt to improve stage modeling in developmental psychology related to micro-genetic approaches and waves in development. However, this approach has some limits in its turn. The chapter concludes with presentation and comments on some other Neo-Piagetian theories (e.g., Case, Fischer, Commons), but finds them inconsistent or wanting.

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