01:830:331 Lecture 12: -Moral Understanding and behavior
20 Apr 2017
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Emphasizes moral development as a process of social understanding. One day, a girl named olivia was playing with her mommy. She went into the kitchen and got a box of crackers and 6 tea cups. She carefully placed the tea cups on a tray, but when she reached for the crackers, the tray accidentally slipped out of her hands and the 6 cups smashed into pieces on the floor. Another girl named jacqueline was playing with her daddy. Jacqueline wanted to play marching band by clanging pot lids together. When her daddy said that he didn"t want to play marching band because it was too loud, she became very angry. She grabbed a cup off of the counter and threw it onto the floor, smashing it into pieces. Premoral period: 2-4 years little understanding of rules. Belief in immanent justice inevitability of punishment. Used moral dilemmas to study moral development.
