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)
autonomous morality (Piaget)
Rules that are set can be changed and discussed (formal operational stage)
criticism Kohlbergs stages
Judgement is not action
cultural differences
social cognition is broader than moral reasoning
