PSYB32H3 Study Guide - Advantageous, The Roots, Diana Baumrind
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Empathy: the capacity to experience the same emotion that someone else is experiencing. According to piaget, mature morality includes both an understanding and acceptance of social rules and a concern for equality and reciprocity in human relationships- these qualities form the basis of justice. Piaget investigated children"s developing moral judgement in 2 main ways: by studying how children change their attitudes toward rules in common games, and by examining the way they change their judgements of the seriousness of transgressions over time. In the stage of morality of reciprocity, children"s moral judgements are now characterized by the recognition that social rules are arbitrary agreements that can be questioned and changed. They realize that obedience to authority is neither necessary nor always desirable and that violations of rules aren"t always wrong or inevitably punished. Children believe that if behaviour is to be punished, the punishment should be related to both the wrongdoer"s intentions and the nature of the transgressions.
