17 - Moral Development Flashcards
What are the two main concepts in Piagets theory of moral development? (Moral Developmental)
- Heteronomous morality
- Autonomous morality
What is heteronomous morality? (Moral Developmental)
- 5-10 years old
- Egocentric
- Morality constraint
What is autonomous morality? (Moral Developmental)
- 10+ years
- Ability to compromise
- Morality of cooperation
What are heteronomous and autonomous morality driven by? (Moral Developmental)
Cognitive changes which are associated with peer interaction
What did Piaget find? (Moral Developmental)
- Understanding ones intention, not outcome, occurs around the age of 10
- Younger children believe consequences should govern how someone is punished, not ones intention
What are the three main stages in Kohlbergs theory of moral development? (Moral Developmental)
- Pre conventional
- Conventional
- Post conventional
What is the pre conventional stage and how is it subdivided? (Moral Developmental)
High egocentric, simplistic reasoning
- Punishment and Instrumental
What is the conventional stage and how is it subdivided? (Moral Developmental)
Maintaining reputation, social order
- Good boy good girl and social order
What is the post conventional stage and how is it subdivided? (Moral Developmental)
Abstract, may oppose law
- Social contract and ethical principle
What was Miller & Bersoff (1992) experiment and what did they find? (Moral Developmental)
- 8, 12 and 21 year olds given conflicting interpersonal judgement
- Americans favoured justice, while Indians favoured interpersonal obligations
- Divide between individualist and collective cultures
What is morality? (Moral Developmental)
Violation to others rights, leading to damage to other welfare
What are social conventions? (Moral Developmental)
Violations of social norms leading to a disrupted social attention and/or social order
What is the relationship between a victim and attention? (Moral Developmental)
- When there is a moral violation, attention tends to be on the vicim
- Social conventional violations, attention is self focused
What holds a relationship with defending social evaluation of the self? (Moral Developmental)
- Increases with age
- More common in social-conventional violation
- Increase of self-conscious emotion
What are the characteristics of empathy? (Moral Developmental)
- Multi-facit construct
- Greater oxytocin (endocrine system)
- Mirror neurone system (same neurones fire when performing the action and observing the action)
