PSYC 304 Chapter Notes -Relational Aggression, Social Cognition, Immanence
8 Dec 2011
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Children"s moral development involves the ways in which they come to understand and follow the rules of their social world. Moral rules: broad issues of fairness and justice. Social conventions: rules used by society to maintain order. Morality has different components: thought processes that underlie morality are assessed in moral reasoning studies, behaviours governed by morality are assessed in studies of moral conduct, theories of moral development, cognitive-developmental approaches. Since young children often have difficulty taking multiple perspectives into account, cognitive developmentalists have concluded that advances in moral reasoning abilities depend heavily on children"s improving cognitive abilities: piaget"s theory. They took the form of short stories in which the child had to determine which of the two characters was naughtier. Piaget developed a 4 stage model of moral development: Stage 1: (2-4 years old) children have no real conception of morality. Their behaviour includes play that has no formal rules.
