Rest Moral Development

Question 1

Obedience - “Do what you’re told.”

Answer 1

Stage 1

Question 2

Instrumental egoism an simple exchange - “Let’s make a deal.”

Answer 2

Stage 2

Question 3

Interpersonal concordance - “Be considerate, nice, and kind, and you’ll get along with people.”

Answer 3

Stage 3

Question 4

Law and duty to the social order - “Everyone in society is obligated and protected by the law.”

Answer 4

Stage 4

Question 5

Societal consensus - “You are obligated by whatever arrangements are agreed to by due process procedures.”

Answer 5

Stage 5

Question 6

Nonarbitrary social cooperation - “How rational and impartial people would organize cooperation is moral.”

Answer 6

Stage 6

Question 7

Name 3 assumptions of Rest Moral Theory

Answer 7

1. Viewed the moral development framework more broadly than Kohlberg did
2. Questioned whether content and structure can be separated in moral reasoning
3. The focus was the kind of consideration an individual uses in making a decision, (content and structure can be included)
4. Development is a continuous process
5. People may be in many stages at once and move back and forth between them

Question 8

Childhood; Focus on the self; Some awareness of others, especially those close to the person in this stage; Each stakeholder in a moral dilemma has to gain and lose if he or she did not have to worry about organizing cooperation on a society-wide basis

Answer 8

Personal Interest Schema

Question 9

First attempt at societal collaboration; Respect for authority and society; Desire for generally accepted norms to govern a collective; Belief that norms and rules apply to all who live in a particular society; Need for clear, uniform, and categorical norms or rule of law; A view of norms as reciprocal: if I obey the law, others will too; Establishment of hierarchical role orders, of chain of command, and of authority and duty

Answer 9

Maintaining Norms Schema

Question 10

Late adolescence; Moral obligation on communal values such as shared ideals, reciprocity, and critial inspection in the form of logical consistency and debate; More advanced in a normative ethical sense; Primacy of moral criteria; Appeal to an ideal; Shareable values; Full reciprocity

Answer 10

Postconventional Schema