PSYC 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Radium
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Thinker judges rightness or goodness of behaviour considering the consequences of behavior. Believes breaking 12 cups accidentally is worse than breaking 1 intentionally. Immanent justice if a rule is broken, punishment will be immediate. Aware that rules and laws are created by people and that judging an action may consider the actors intentions as well as the consequences. See rules as convenient that are subject to change. Lawerence kohlberg - 6 stages of moral development. Broke radically from early psychological explanation of morality. In europe a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him. Druggist paid 200 for the radium ad charged 2000 for a small dose of the drug.
