SPYCHOLOGY TOPICS GE 112 PERIOD 9/10 Flashcards
How moral are you? p. 143
how do Psychologist define Morals?
psychologist define morals as those attitudes and beliefs that help people decide the difference between and degrees of right and wrong.
how is your concept of morality determine?
it is determined by the rules and norms of conduct that are set forth by the culture in which you have been raised and that have been internalized by you.
what are the two influential figures in the research on morality?
Jean piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg (1927-1987)
where did Kohlberg do his research?
the university of Chicago.
what was the question that Kohlberg was addressing?
How does the amoral infant become capaable of moral reasoning?
what did Kohlberg study?
what did Jean Piaget study?
Moral development
Moral intellectual development
what did Kohlberg mean by the “structural moral stages in childhood and adolescence”?
he meant
a) each stage is a uniquely different kind of moral thinking and not just an increased understanding of an adult concept of morality;
b) the stages always occur in the same step by step sequence so that no stage is ever skipped and there is rarely andy backward progression;
c) the stages are PREPOTENT. meaning that children comprehend all the stages below their own and p[erhaps have some understanding of no more than one stage above.
what did Kohlberg’s theory of the formation of morality,believed about the stages?
they implied that the stages are universal and occur in the same order, regardless of individual differences in environment, experience, or culture.
what are the six stages of kohlberg’s Moral Development? and in what moral lever do they fit?
Moral level 1: premoral level:
stage 1 punishment and obedience orientation
stage 2 Naive instrumental hedonism
Moral level 2: Morality of conventional role comformity:
stage 3 “good boy- nice girl” orientation
stage 4 Authority maintaining moraility
Moral lever 3: Morality of self -accepted moral principles
stage 5 morality of agreements and democratically determined law
state 6 Morality of individual principles of conscience
