COMM 4334 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lawrence Kohlberg, James Rest, Jean Piaget
14 Dec 2016
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Department
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Professor
10/11/16
Jean Piaget
General Concepts
• Studied boys playing marbles
• Understanding of moral rules
Childre’s stages
• Baby: can only comprehend objects he or she sees
• Ages 2 – 7: preoperational period; can understand relationship between
objects but only to some degree
• Ages 7 – 11: some logical judgments
• Ages 12 – 15: begins to use hypothetical
Lawrence Kohlberg
• 1927 – 1987
• death believed to be suicide
• the psychology of moral development, 1984
• morality evolves through stages
• lengthy interview method
Understanding Kohlberg
Kohlberg’s stages:
• Preconventional – child like, no concern for others
o Stage 1 → Avoid punishment
o Stage 2 → Seek rewards
• Conventional – society’s ors, the golde rule
o Stage 3 → need for acceptance
o Stage 4 → upholding the law, maintain social order
• Postconventional – use of own reasoning, laws based on universal
principles
o Stage 5 → social utility
o Stage 6 → Universality
Defining Issues Test
• James Rest
• Multiple-choice method
• Kohlberg’s stages
• 3,5, or 6 dilemmas
• 12 items
Predictors of moral development
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