Chapter 12 Flashcards
Prosocial Behavior
– Empathy and Sympathy
– Guilt
Antisocial
– Aggression / Anger / Hurt
– Younger – poor understanding or morals
– Older – understanding of morals
Early Moral Development (Innate)
-Babies sensitive to social situations
Early Moral Development (Environment)
-Behaviorism/Social Cognitive
-Positive and negative emotions
You can do this
Believe in yourself Jess
Preconventional morality (Kohlberg’s Stages)
the concrete, seek rewards, avoid
punishments (reinforcement)
Conventional morality (Kohlberg’s Stages)
members of society, social norms
Postconventional morality (Kohlberg’s Stages)
outside of society’s values, universal
or personal conscience (highest level or “human rights”)
KOHLBERG’S STAGES - CRITICISMS
Judgment vs behavior
* Based on hypotheticals
* Need to consider context
* Ex. justice, group dynamics, freedom and personal
choice, etc.
* say no to speeding, but you speed
KOHLBERG’S STAGES - CRITICISMS
- Does not generalize to non-Western cultures
DEVELOPMENT OF A SOCIAL LIFE
- Humans are built to be social
- Infants and toddlers
– Seek out peers
– Mimic peers (learning from each other or “hey I like you”
Onlooker Play
-watching others play
Parallel Play
– next to each other, but
not with each other
Cooperative Play
-playing together with plans
Pretend Play
Changes from realistic/concrete to more imaginative
Vygotsky and Piaget: pretend play -> cognitive development
-what their brain development at this time
Associative Play
-playing with other children, sharing toys, and interacting, but with no overall organization of the group to achieve a common goal.
Cooperative Play
-playing as part of a group that has a common goal such as building a structure, creating a make-believe situation such as “house” with assigned roles, or playing.
