PSY 2105 Study Guide - Relational Aggression, Conflict Resolution, The Roots
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Moral development is determined by your culture and you"re moral development. We also have different periods of development with different moral reasoning. Social conventions: we have rules to keep society in place, moral reasoning: how you think about things, moral conduct: the way you act. Pieagets stage theory: stage 1 (2-4 yrs): children have no true conception of morality, stage 2 (5-7 yrs): understand rules but are not flexible in rule use. Objective responsibility: children evaluate moral situations on the basis of amount of damage. Immanent justice: there should be immediate justice: stage 3 (8-11 yrs): they realize rules are conventions and they can be altered. They now consider intention: stage 4 (12 up): children develop rules as needed and extend moral reasoning beyond their personal level. Moral reasoning develops as the cognitive structures of the child develop. Conventional: social systems must be based on laws and regulations. The law says it"s bad so i won"t do it.
