Moral Development Flashcards
What is morality?
Culture and time bound / varies across time and place
What is allogrooming?
Do unto others as you would have done unto you
What is empathy?
The ability to feel another persons experiences, identifying with and experiencing their emotions, thoughts and attributes
What is hate?
When an individual perceives their hate target as having malicious intentions and being immoral, which is accompanied by feelings of lack of control or powerlessness
What is evil?
Sadism, intentionally harming someone
What is a moral culture?
A belief system that guides behaviour - serves a prosocial function
What are moral foundations?
Care, fairness, loyalty, authority, and sanctity
What is casual attribution?
Blaming victims and exonerating perpetrators approach emotional things in a rational way
What is system 2 of dual factor theories?
Considered, effortful, focused, secondary, slower, lazy -> slow thinking
What is system 1 of dual factor theories?
Automatic, intuitive, instinctive, primary, rapid, blind -> fast thinking
What did Piaget and Kohlberg say about moral development?
It occurs in stages, not every person will develop to the highest stages of moral code. Strong parallel between cognitive and more development.
3 levels -> pre, conventional and post
What is the rational choice theory?
Morality follows a cost benefit analysis suitable to the evolutionary needs of the developing child according to the principle of joint enterprise - altruism, work together to sole the problems of living
What is a social dilemma?
Are the rights of the individual more important than those of the community in which they live
