Moral Development Flashcards
Interpersonal means what?
Your relationship with others
Intrapersonal mens what?
how you think about your own development
Describe Piaget’s stages of reason and thought
Stage 1: heteronomous morality, kids think rules can’t be broken
Transition period
Stage 2: autonomous reality, realize rules are only created by people
What is immanent justice?
If you do something bad and then something bad happens to you, you feel like you deserve it. Like karma, but kids take it more extreme (Jerry Sandusky)
Describe Kohlberg’s level 1 and stages 1 and 2 of reason and thought
Level 1: Preconventional, right and wrong are determined by punishment and reward.
- Stage 1: punishment/obedience
- Stage 2: rewards, behave in a way that’s rewarded
Describe Kohlberg’s level 2 and stage 3 and 4 of reason and thought
Level 2: Conventional, views of others are important, avoid blame and seek approval
- Stage 3: mutual interpersonal expectations
- Stage 4: social system morality
Describe Kohlberg’s level 3 and stage 5 and 6 of reason and thought
Level 3: Postconventional, justice is more abstract
- Stage 5: moral vs. legal right
- Stage 6: universal ethical principals
How you think about morals rather than making the actual moral decisions was put into a social dilemma called…?
Heinz Dillemma
Gilligan said that the denial of justice perspective led to what?
Individuals make moral decisions independently
Schopenhauer said that ________ is the key to morality
compassion
3 kinds of acts are described by Schopenhauer, what are they?
acts of compassion
egotistic acts
acts of malice
Recall what Aaron Swartz, Bradley Manning and Ed Snowden did.
…
The pillars of morality are…?
reciprocity and compassion
What is empathy?
understanding others’ feelings
What are the basic processes of moral behavior?
reinforcement, punishment and imitation
