A PSY 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Moral Development, Moral Rights, Psych
13 Jun 2018
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Exam 3: Day 19
Morality in Thought and Action
Limitations to Kohlberg’s Theories
• Vague and inconsistent
o Kohlberg changed the number of stages several times; practitioners have hard
time classifying individuals into just one stage
• Cross- culturally invalid
o Not all progress through his stages
• Gender biases
o Based on data only from middle class boys
Gillian’s Theory of Moral Development
• Females progress faster
o Moral rights and responsibilities occur in terms of relationships
• Emphasis on cognition (instead of emotion)
• Central Principle: People should help others who are in need!
Pluralistic Approach to Moral development
• Personality Psych.
o Person- situation interactions → Personality traits vary dramatically as a
function of situations and contexts
▪ Moral reasoning interacts with social contexts
• Cultural Psych
o Individualist vs. collectivist cultures: Prioritizing the rights and well-
being of individuals or groups
▪ Judgments can vary within the same culture on gender and other
factors → constructivist approach
• The child evaluates the situation and the actors and takes
into account culturally specific meanings in order to
construct an interpretation specific to that context
• Individualist culture: individual rights are valued over the rights of the
collective
• Collectivist culture: group rights are central
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