PSYC 2010U Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Moral Responsibility, Internal Control, Relativism
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Week 12 lecture 10 middle childhood: social development. Morality (review: a set of principles or ideas that help the individual to distinguish right from wrong, to act on this distinction, and to feel pride in virtuous conduct and guilt for (cid:272)o(cid:374)du(cid:272)t that (cid:448)iolates o(cid:374)e"s sta(cid:374)dards. Experience (affective: internalization - the process of adopting the attributes or standards of other people a(cid:374)d taki(cid:374)g the(cid:373) as o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) Moving from external control to internal control. Conscience = emerges once children have developed generalizable, internalized standards for the way they behave: piaget"s theor(cid:455) of moralit(cid:455) Little respect for, or awareness of, socially defined rules. Moral realism & heteronomous morality (5/6 to 10 years) Moral responsibility is understood as obedience to authority. Moral relativism & autonomous morality (10+ years) Kohlberg"s levels of moral develop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t: emphasized the importance of opportunities to take perspective of others.
