PSYCH211 Lecture 17: Lecture 17 Notes
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At first, we are interacting mainly with people that have more authority than us, then later they begin to interact with peers/people of similar authority. Kids go from thinking what determines a good/bad action by thinking of how you might be punished, to thinking what other people will think (whether you will fit in or not) It"s about belonging to a group (punishment is no longer being grounded, but being austrisized. Then develops to thinking whether an action makes sense to them (not about belonging to a group anymore) 1st stage: movement from thinking about concrete punishment or groups to reasoning. 3rd stage: start to question things; realize different groups have different values (maybe there isn"t any universal moral principle; maybe the best we can do is have a procedure for resolving conflicts: postconventional level. Kohlberg progression: we go from very concrete (what happens to me), to thinking of the group, to reason: summary table, stages over time.