Lecture 13 - Moral Development Flashcards
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Morality
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- distinguish right from wrong
- act on this distinction
- feel pride in virtuous conduct
- feel guilt for conduct that violates standards
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Internalization
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- integration of attitudes, values and standards into own sense of self
- seen as developmental milestone
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Emotional component
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motivated to avoid negative emotions and experience pos emotions
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Empathy
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- vicarious exp of another person
- motivates prosocial behavior
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Prosocial behavior
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- social act that demonstrates concern/empathy
- reduces joint suffering
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Antisocial behavior
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- aimed at hurting another person or society
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Cognitive component
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- most related to moral development
- moral reasoning - thinking that occurs when people decide whether acts are right or wrong (justification)
- perspective-taking skills - putting ourselves in other’s shoes
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Core knowledge of morality
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- innate knowledge of beliefs
- argued that babies are able to distinguish btwn right and wrong
- even as young as 3 y.o. showed core knowledge or morality
9
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How did Piaget test moral reasoning?
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- played games with children and broke the rules to test reactions
- gave moral dilemmas through stories
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Premoral period
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- Piaget’s stage theory
- children in preoperational period
- not concerned with right or wrong
- inconsistent behavior
11
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Heteronomous morality
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- strong respect for rules, cannot be violated or changed
- objective responsibility - focus on outcome rather than
- immanent justice - punishment outweighs crime
- moral absolutes - either a R or a wrong answer
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Autonomous morality
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- all seeing entity that sees your behavior, punishment is inevitable
- rules can be changed or broken for human welfare
- subjective responsibility - intention matters
- understand that the punishment should match the crime
13
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At what age do children transfer from the heteronomous morality to autonomous morality?
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- about 10 or 11 y.o.
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What were the problems with Piaget’s theory?
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- rarely studies individuals over age 12 - could be that teens or adults are more morally sophisticated, but we don’t know bc he didnt study anyone over 12
- thought cognitive sophistication = moral sophistication
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Kohlberg
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- followed Piaget, but expanded his testing to people above 12 y.o.
- gave moral dilemmas to determine moral development
- developed 4 level theory or moral development
16
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What was an example of one of Kohlber’s moral dilemmas?
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The Heinz Dilemma
