PSY BEH 11B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Noam Chomsky, Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex, Universal Grammar
5 Jun 2016
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Kohlberg"s theory of moral development: lawrence kohlberg. Not so interest in the particular decisions people reached a. iii. Interested in the reasoning they used to reach their decisions: three levels of moral development b. i. Actions are good if they lead to reward; actions are bad if they result in punishment or loss for the self b. i. 2. Who: most children under nine, some teens, many adult criminals b. i. 3. 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 b. i. 3. c. jail b. ii. Good actions improve relationships or society, bad actions harm relationships or society b. ii. 2. b. ii. 3. You can"t blame him for doing something out of love for his wife; you"d blame him if he didn"t love his wife enough to save her b. ii. 3. b. Good actions are in accord with universal ethical principles that may conflict with a society"s laws.
