19 Kohlberg

Question 1

How Moral Are You? Year

Answer 1

1963

Question 2

How Moral Are You? Author

Answer 2

Kohlberg

Question 3

How Moral Are You? Background/Theory (3 things)

Answer 3

(1) Kohlberg used Piaget’s stage theory as a starting point. (2) He believed that specifric, identifiable staeges of moral development unfold like Piaget’s cognitive stages. (3) Kohlberg believed that his theory of the formation of morality could be explored by giving children at various ages the opportunity to make moral judgments and If their reasoning could be found to progress predictably at increasing ages, this would be evidence that his stage theory was essentially correct.

Question 4

How Moral Are You? Method/Results (6 things)

Answer 4

(1) Used the Brothers Dilemma: Joe asks his brother Alex to lie to his father about something. (2) The Heinz Deilemma in which a husband steals from a pharmacist because he cannot afford to pay for his wife’s life saving medication. (3) Kohlberg interviewed 72 boys in three different age groups, 10, 13, and 16 years old. (4) Level 1: Premoral (5) Level 2: Role Conformity: (6) Level 3: Self-Accepted Moral Principles

Question 5

How Moral Are You? Significant (2 things)

Answer 5

(1) Kohlberg points out that these children actively organized the morality of the world around them in a series of predictable, sequential stages. (2) For the child, this was not seen simply as an assimilation and internalization of adult moral teachings through verbal explanation and punishment but as an emergence of cognitive moral structures

Question 6

How Moral Are You? Legacy (3 things)

Answer 6

(1) One criticism is that these six stages are probably only fond in western individualistic societies. (2) Another criticism is that he only used boys and not girls, so it’s possible that female moral development is different than male. (3) Recent research has found that children with histories of prenatal alcohol consumption demonstrated lower overall moral maturity compated with control.