PSY 302 Lecture Notes - Prosocial Behavior, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jean Piaget
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Chapter 14 - moral development - how children develop (3rd ed. ) Core concepts: the reasoning behind a behavior is critical for determining whether a given behavior is moral or immoral, changes in moral reasoning form the basis of moral development. Piaget"s theory of moral judgment: morality of constraint, the transitional period, autonomous morality. 3: a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to produce. He paid for the radium and charged. ,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman"s husband, heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about ,000 which is half of what it cost.