10012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Association Football, Reinforcement, Team Unity

• School: University of Canberra
• Department: University of Canberra
• Course: 10012
• Professor: Richard Keegan

Document Summary

What is morality: the rules and principles for distinguishing right from wrong behaviour, psychologists are generally not interested in saying what is right or wrong, three components: Instead, they are interested in the processes by which individuals develop these rules: 1. Knowing what is right and wrong (cognitive moral reasoning: 2. Behaving in accordance with the rules (behavioural moral behaviour: 3. Feelings as a consequence of behaviour (affective - e. g. , guilt) Developmental approaches: our ability to reason morally depends on our level of cognitive development, structural development, concrete or abstract thought, younger people are less able to reason morally when compared to older people. Lawrence kohlberg (1984) moral development is an orderly progression through stages which occur as a result of the interaction between the person and environment: norma hann (1983) views moral reasoning as an indicator of moral development. James rest (1984) and shields and bredemeier (1995) focus on the processes underlying moral behaviour.