PSY210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Prosocial Behavior, Moral Realism, Moral Development
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Initially, parents control the young child"s behavior largely through immediate external factors, such as displeasure or punishment. As children mature, however, they begin to regulate their own behavior by means of internalized standards of conduct. They become able, in the absence of external restraints, to exert self-control. Through internalization, children incorporate others" ideas and beliefs into their own concepts of themselves. There are 3 basic components of morality: Cognitive (knowledge of ethical rules and judgements of the goodness and badness of various acts) Behavioural (people"s actual behaviour in situations that invoke ethical considerations) Emotional (people"s feelings about situations and behaviours that involve moral and ethical considerations: classic theories on moral reasoning, piaget"s cognitive theory on moral development. 5-11 look at the act not the reason why it was committed) In industrialized western countries there are regular age trends in the development of moral judgment from moral realism to moral reciprocity.
