PY 352 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Lawrence Kohlberg, Electra Complex, Gender Role
22 May 2018
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1. Moral Development
1. Lawrence Kohlberg
1. Described how our ability to reason about ethical situations changes
over our lives
2. Asked children to think about specific moral situations
3. Heinz dilemma
1. Heinz must make a moral choice about whether to steal a drug he
can’t afford to save his wife’s life
4. Responses to Heinz dilemma
1. preconventional
1. youngest children
2. focus on making the decision most likely to avoid punishment
3. moral reasoning limited to how the choice affects themselves
2. conventional
1. look at the moral choice through the eyes of others
2. make the choice based on how others will view them
3. try to follow conventional standards of right and wrong
3. postconventional
1. moral reasoning
2. examines the rights and values involved in the choice
3. self-defined ethical principles involved
4. the morality of societal rules are examined, not blindly accepted
2. Criticisms of Kohlberg
1. Carol Gilligan
1. Kohlberg developed the model based on responses of boys
1. gender differences in development of morals and ethics?
2. according to her research:
1. boys have a more absolute view of what is moral
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