| A | B |
| Activity | successful aging correlates with high activity |
| Disengagement Theory | interest in social systems decreas with age |
| Erikson | Ego-threatening crisis must be resolved before advancement to next stage |
| Peck's Developmental Theory | Provided expansion of stages of middle and late adulthood |
| Kohlberg | Stages of moral development |
| Gould's Mature development | Four false assumptions that must be overcome |
| Levinson Seasons of a Man's Life | Family and occupation is the underlying structure |
| Havighurst | Uses tasks as a development marker |