PSY312H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ethnocentrism, Physical Law, Main Source
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Theory of mind focuses on others" intentions. Three year olds can identify victims of harm. Six year olds can recognize an unintentional victim. Can recognize victim of an illegitimate request: i want you to hit your little sister. Moral development: any changes in observed judgments, behaviours and emotions regarding standards of right or wrong that occur in certain contexts across the lifespan. Three moral components: affective: emotional component; guilt, shame, etc. Believe children are motivated to act in accordance with ethical principles that make them feel pride and avoid guilt and shame. In freud"s theory the superego evokes the guilt and shame: cognitive: the way we conceptualize right and wrong and decision-making; here and now. Kohlberg: developed theory of moral development, six irreversible, universal stages across three levels of morality based on a research interview method, participants read a moral reasoning scenario and decide what to do .
