PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Psych, Emerging Adulthood And Early Adulthood, Ingroups And Outgroups

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 001
• Professor: del rio

Document Summary

Sought to describe the development of moral reasoning. Posed moral dilemmas to children and adolescents and asked them what they thought about it. Affirms people"s agreed upon rights or follows personally perceived ethical principles. Defined by a social contract generally agreed upon for the public good sake. By early adolescence social rules and laws are upheld for their own. Gains approval and avoids disapproval, is defined by rigid codes of. Preconventional morality (levels 1&2): show morality to avoid punishment or gain reward. Younger children tend to show this kind of morality. Based on abstract ethical principles that determine one"s own moral code. Carol g said that this study was completely biased because there were no. Cognitive and moral development in the eyes of the law women, women go about morality differently than men. Neurons in the frontal cortex grow myelin which speeds up nerve conductions. Frontal cortex lags behind limbic system development.