PSYCH211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cultural Relativism, Standard Deviation, Psychophysics
24 Jul 2013
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Taking a step back: what piaget & kohlberg have in common. Development: long transition from deference to authority to authority-independent moral principles for all moral questions: adult moral reasoning is very different from child moral reasoning. Both assume that moral judgements are the product of explicit, conscious moral reasoning. Justification reflects reasoning that leads to moral judgment: that"s why p&k gave more weight to justifications than to judgments. No: questions of harm (turiel calls these the moral transgressions . Kicking your younger brother while mom isn"t looking. Three year olds: hurting someone else is more wrong than not saying please when asking for something. Four year olds: harming is wrong even if authority allows it. Transgressing norms is ok if authority allows it. How can we resolve the conflict between piaget & kohlberg and more recent research: about unconscious vs. conscious moral reasoning.
