PSY 453 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Cognitive Distortion, Psy

• School: Eastern Oregon University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 453
• Professor: Dr. Charles Lyons

Document Summary

Little by little, we are acquiring and developing a sense of ethics and morals, regulating our behavior based on the values that are established in our way of being. This will generate an increase in internal tension and the appearance of subjective discomfort in the face of their own actions, when a moral conflict appears . Bandura"s theory of moral disconnection, as we have seen in the introduction, is applicable in all kinds of situations: from the simplest or trivial to major war crimes . 2 greater the severity of the split between conduct and moral behavior, the greater the difficulty in using oneself and the greater need for the intense application of defensive mechanisms that prevent the destruction of the self and self-concept. Four main levels: the theory of moral disconnection proposes that such disconnection can occur in different domains or levels, depending on where it is located or the aspect that the mechanisms used themselves work.