PSYC 2060U Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Moral Development, Egocentrism, Clear Communications
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Slide 3: review: morality 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 conduct that violates one"s standards. Middle childhood to adolescence: when moral thoughts become more internalized. Piaget"s theory of morality (need to know this theory for final exam) Slide 4: kohlberg"s levels of moral development bases his work off of piaget"s theory. Emphasized importance of opportunities to take perspective of others and experience conflict in moral development. Moral development is based on moral reasoning and unfolds in different stages. The reasons for why something is right and why something is wrong, happens when egocentrism starts to decline and social perspective taking increases. Developed a paradigm, presents children, adolescents and adults with a story that illustrates a dilemma. The interviewer is asked series of questions about the dilemma, how people reason about these dilemmas.
