Moral Disengagement

Question 1

Components of morality

Answer 1

cognitive: moral reasoning
affective: moral self-evaluation
behavioural: resistance to deviation

Question 2

Piaget’s theory of moral development

Answer 2

1. morality of constraint
2. morality of cooperation

intentions vs consequences critical

Question 3

Kohlberg’s social domain theory HK experiment

Answer 3

HK children rated moral transgressions worse than social transgressions
focused on the intrinsic consequences of their actions in terms of the welfare of others

Question 4

Moral emotions

Answer 4

guilt - linked to the transgression
shame - linked to self-imperfection
pride - positive moral emotion

Question 5

Attribution theory of development of resistance to deviation

Answer 5

personal attribution - child more likely to go ahead with behaviour

Question 6

Cognitive factors in resisting deviation

Answer 6

anticipated self-evaluations
self-perceptions
cognitive representations of behaviour
self-verbalisations

Question 7

Age of criminal responsibility

Answer 7

no child under 10 can be found criminally responsible
10-14 must prove competence
UNCRC recommends ACR be no less than 12

Question 8

Psychosocial maturity in responsibility - Freud

Answer 8

middle teens had lowest future time orientation and resistance to peer pressure

minority teens viewed crime as less serious than western teens from same SES
- lower SE for anticipation of someone getting hurt

Question 9

Wagland and Bussey findings ACR

Answer 9

8 year olds can differentiate childish misconduct from criminal behaviours

16 year olds condone childish mischief more than 8 and 12 year olds do

adolescents and adults justified mischievous behaviour and viewed it as less wrong