PSY E202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Relativism, Psy, Psych
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We know that cognition is involved--intentions and goals for the behaviors we choose to do. Therefore, much of the research on moral development has focused upon how children think. Children begin with a rigid acceptance of the rules --> appreciation that moral rules are a product of social interaction and are therefore modifiable. Piaget believed that much of moral development happens through interactions of peers. Stage one: stage of the morality of constraint. Most characteristic of children who have not achieved piaget"s stage of concrete operations. Rules tend to be unchangeable and given, what adults say is right, and punishments are always justified. Consequences determine whether an action is good or bad. Children take this view on morality because: Take what they see and make this evaluation. Want to trust what parents do or say and there is no reason to question it. Period from age 7 or 8 to age 10.
