PSY 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Columbine High School Massacre, Jean Piaget, Prosocial Behavior
16 May 2019
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The reasoning behind a behavior is critical for determining whether a given behavior is. Changes in moral reasoning from the basis of moral development. The columbine tragedy and incidents like it raise questions about why some adolescents. The starting point for finding answers is in understanding the aspects of children"s. Troubling questions become involved in antisocial and illegal behavior thinking and behavior that contribute to morality. Piaget"s theory of moral judgment reasoning changes from a rigid acceptance of the dictates and rules of authorities to an appreciation that moral rules are a product of social interaction and hence are modifiable. He also conducted open-ended interviews with children in which they were presented with stories involving children"s behavior and asked to make judgments as to which child was naughtier stage of concrete operations the action, not the motive behind it. Both took a cognitive developmental approach to studying the development of morality.
