B A 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Normative Social Influence, Moral Reasoning
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Ethical judgement - making decision about what is the right thing to do in a situation with ethical overtones. Certain parts of the brain are activated more during ethical decision making compared to when the same individuals are making other kinds of decisions. Cognitive moral development theory - focuses on how people think about and decide what course of action is ethically right. When people respond to ethical dilemma situations, they must decide what court of action is ethically right, and they must choose the ethically right path over others. Moral reasoning develops sequentially through here broad levels. Cognitively capable of comprehending all reasoning at stages below their own, but cannot comprehend reasoning more than one stage above their own. Level 1: pre-conventional - individual is very self-centered and views ethical rules as imposed from outside the self. Individuals are limited to thinking about obedience to authority for its own sake.
