PSY BEH 11B Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Universal Grammar, Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex, Mother Teresa
8 Mar 2019
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Used piaget"s research as starting point for his own research. Not so interested in particular decisions people reached. Interested in the reasoning they use to reach their decisions. Sick woman needs drug that costs , 10x what cost to make drug. Man got desperate & broke into man"s store to steal the drug for his wife. *people"s reasons for moral choices fell into three general categories according to. Bad if lead to punishment or loss for the self. Focus on what is good or bad for the person themselves. Who: most children under nine, some teens, many adult criminals. If he lets his wife die, he"ll get in trouble. It won"t bother him much to serve a little jail time if he still has his wife when he gets out. What if everyone stole/ then there would be no law. Good actions are those that are consistent with universal ethical principles that might conflict with society"s laws.
