PSY BEH 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Moral Responsibility, Psy, Prosocial Behavior
18 Dec 2019
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Empathy: reacting to another"s feelings with an emotional response that is similar to the other"s feelings, cognitive component: the ability to discern another"s inner psychological states, or what we have previously discussed as perspective taking. Development: today, many child developmentalists believe that both positive feelings such as empathy, sympathy, admiration, and self- esteem and negative feelings such as anger, outrage, shame, and guilt contribute to children"s moral development, sympathy an other-oriented emotional response in which the. They do not give the substance of moral regulation the rules, values, and standards of behavior that children need to understand and act on. Moral personality: moral identity: individuals have a moral identity when moral notions and commitments are central to their life. Behaving in a manner that violates this moral commitment places the integrity of the self at risk: a mature moral individual cares about morality and being a moral person. Moral responsibility is central to their identity: engage in moral metacognition:
