PSY BEH 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Moral Character, Psy, Family Values
18 Dec 2019
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Involves having the strength of your convictions, persisting, and overcoming distractions and obstacles. If individuals don"t have moral character, they may wilt under pressure or fatigue, fail to follow through or become distracted and discouraged, and fail to behave morally. Moral character presupposes that the person has set moral goals and that achieving those goals involves the commitment to act in accord with those goals. Moral exemplars have a moral personality, identity, character, and set of virtues that reflect moral excellence and commitment. Social domain theory: states that there are different domains of social knowledge and reasoning, including moral, social conventional, and personal domains. Children"s and adolescents" moral, social conventional, and personal knowledge and reasoning emerge from their attempts to understand and deal with different forms of social experience. Emphasizes that the key aspects of morality involve judgments about welfare, justice, and rights as well as struggles that individuals have with moral issues in their social lives.
