PSYC 313 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Prosocial Behavior, Radium, Gender Role
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Chapter 14: moral development: according to piaget, morals are obtained through interactions with peers, stage 1: morality of constraint, before concrete operation (before age 7, rules are unchangeable, blindly accept rules, transitional period, between ages 7 and 10. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town has recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make and the druggist was charging 10x what it cost to make. The sick woman"s heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money and tried every legal means, but he could only get together about ,000, which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist his wife was dying and he asked for it the be cheaper and the guy says nope. So he considers stealing the drugs: kohlberg"s stages, preconventional moral reasoning, self-centered, getting rewards and avoiding punishment, conventional moral reasoning, social relationships, compliance with social duties and laws, post-conventional moral reasoning.