Chapter 15 Flashcards
Moral development
Moral dilemmas
People choose and justify their reasoning in a moral issue.
Kohlberg’s 6 stages of morality
- Heteronomous morality
- Instrumental morality
- Interpersonal normative morality
- Social system morality
- Human rights and social welfare morality
- Morality of conscience
Heteronomous morality
stage 1 Kohlberg:
Children believe that right and wrong are determined by powerful adult figures
instrumental morality
Stage 2 Kohlberg:
Children let others desires only influence their judgement when they affect their own instrumental goals.
interpersonal normative morality
Stage 3 Kohlberg:
Concern of others perspectives of them.
Social system morality
Stage 4 Kohlberg:
Takes laws and rules into account to preserve social harmony
Human rights and welfare morality
Stage 5 Kohlberg:
Ethical principles guide morality.
Morality of conscience
Stage 6 Kohlberg:
Own rules in accordance with self-selected universal ethical principles
How do you progress in Kohlberg’s stages?
Move up a single stage at a time and going back in stages is rare.
social cognition
the comprehension of social situations
attributions
belief as to why people carry out actions
morality and pro-sociality
more sophisticated moral reasoning is predictive of higher levels of prosocial action. Morality is also related to personality
Piaget’s stages of morality
pre-moral morality
heteronomous morality
autonomous morality
pre-moral morality (Piaget)
young children have no sense of morality (preoperational stage)
heteronomous morality (Piaget)
Rules set by authority figures are unchangeable (concrete operational stage)
