PSYB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Convenience Store, Information Processing, Classical Conditioning
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Moral development involves changes in thoughts, feelings and behaviors about standards of right and wrong. 3 components: cognitive: what people know and understand about morality, how they reason about morality, behavioural: what people actually do, emotional: how people feel about situations when there"s an ethical or moral issue. Key theorists in moral development: piaget & kohlberg: two main influences on moral development are cognitive growth and social interactions with equals. Leads kids to be better problem-solvers ability to take other people"s perspectives is required to be able to reason morally formal-operational thinking is required at post- conventional level. Negotiations to work out differences in perspectives. Piaget"s theory of moral development: child"s cognitive capabilities determine the evolution of moral reasoning, moral development proceeds in stages, 1) premoral stage (up to 5 years) Kids don"t really care about rules: 2) moral realism (5 11 years) Consequences determine seriousness of seriousness of an act.
