WEEK 9: Development 2 – Social development

Question 1

The part of a person’s identity associated with the racial, religious or cultural group to which the person belongs

1. Pre-conventional reasoning
2. Moral development
3. Ethnic identity
4. Conventional reasoning

Answer 1

Ethnic identity

Question 2

Kohlberg identified three levels of moral reasoning:

1. pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional.
2. Conventional, pre-conventional and post conventional
3. Post conventional, conventional and pre-conventional

Answer 2

Pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional.

Question 3

The growth of an individual’s understanding of the concepts of right and wrong

1. Learning
2. Moral development
3. Moral compass
4. Biological development

Answer 3

Moral development

Question 4

Focus on moral reasoning as moral development proceeds through a series of stages that reflect cognitive development (e.g. Piaget’s theory and Kohlberg’s theory).

1. Psychodynamic theories
2. Information-processing theories
3. Cognitive-development theories
4. Cognitive-social theories

Answer 4

Cognitive-development theories

Question 5

Focus on moral behaviour learned through behavioural conditioning and modelling.

1. Psychodynamic theories
2. Information-processing theories
3. Cognitive-development theories
4. Cognitive-social theories

Answer 5

Cognitive-social theories

Question 6

Break moral thinking into component processes about which a series of sequential judgments are made e.g. Who caused the immoral behaviour? Was it intentional? How extensive was the resulting harm?

1. Psychodynamic theories
2. Information-processing theories
3. Cognitive-development theories
4. Cognitive-social theories

Answer 6

Information-processing theories

Question 7

Emphasise the role of emotions such as empathy and guilt as motivators of action

1. Psychodynamic theories
2. Information-processing theories
3. Cognitive-development theories
4. Cognitive-social theories

Answer 7

Psychodynamic theories