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I wish I could remember the specifics of something I heard/learned about in college decades ago.
It was probably an "Intro to Psychology" type of course. Something about a mental development framework that mapped onto human beings as they went from "baby" to "adult" and with some criteria as to when a person had progressed through each phase. I have a vague memory that the course reading stated that a significant portion of people who are "adult aged" did not meet the qualifications of having reached the final "adult" phase outlined in that framework. I wonder if You-go-pink, having gone through higher education to get a degree in ... Marketing, right? Had similar intro to Psychology or Sociology courses describing that framework.
(Really wish I could remember what it was called to see how badly I've misremembered this)
sounds like Piaget's cognitive stages, sensorimotor -> pre-operational -> concrete operational -> formal operational
the last stage includes things like abstract thought, symbolism, and thinking of things as parts of greater systems
This has got to be it
Simplypsychology.org, Piaget's Cognitive Stages
Core Principal #2 is "Some individuals may never attain the later stages.
Awesome. Hexbears, bestbears!
Freud?
I think this is a less likely guess, but I often think about this model that I was shown in an intro psych class:
https://www.simplypsychology.org/kohlberg.html
I think some of the phrasing might question-beg about morality a little, but if I'm willing to just take the L and accept Marxism as sociologically having what can be analyzed as a moral system even if it philosophically rejects the concept of moral values, then it works well enough.
Awesome reply, I appreciate it.
Looking at the chart, I don't think this is what I was shown. Comrade NephewAlphaBravo's suggestion of Piaget's Cognitive Stages seem more like what I remember.
Simplypsychology.org page about Piaget's Cognitive Stages
This has got to be what I remember.