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Lifespan Development
Loyalist College DSW Winter 2018 Childhood Morality
Question | Answer |
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Moral Development | The ability to distinguish from wrong, act on that distinction and experience pride when doing right and shame when doing wrong. |
Kohlberg | Developed most thorough theory for moral development |
Dilemma | A situation given by Kohlberg to boys of different ages to distinguish which stage of moral development they are in |
Preconventional | Person sees the rules as being external to them and imposed by an authority figure |
Stage 1 | Punishment & Obedience Orientation |
Stage 2 | Self Interest Orientation |
Conventional Morality | Rules and norms of the group become the basis for moral judgements |
Stage 3 | Good Boy/Good Girl Mentality |
Stage 4 | Authority & Social Order Maintaining Orientation |
Post Conventional Morality | Can distinguish between morally right and legal |
Stage 5 | Morality of Contract, Individual Rights & Law |
Stage 6 | Morality of Individual Principles of Conscience |
Early Childhood | Most likely at Pre-Conventional Level of Morality |
Middle Childhood/Adolescence | Most likely at Conventional Level of Morality |
Some Adults | Most likely at Post Conventional Level of Morality |
Criticisms of Kohlberg's Theory | Cultural and Gender Bias |
Ideal self | Who you think you should be |
Real self | Who you actually are |