PSYC 465 Midterm: 465 - Exam 2 stems
13 Dec 2015
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Psychology 465 / educational psychology 405 personality and social development. Social domain theory challenged this idea by showing that: and knowledge. Young children view the social world as consisting of distinct domains of social rules moral transgressions: toddlers. Moral transgressions: serious, what deserves punishment, not context dependent conventional transgressions: adults. Children are aware that some stuff is wrong, regardless of rules or authority figures. Children show more response to moral transgressions than conventional. If piaget/kohlberg was right, children should have instead shown more response to conventional transgressions (belief that what adults say is wrong is wrong) than moral (what is inherently wrong). Children had very low response to conventional transgressions whereas adults showed more response than children. Among the hallmarks of piaget"s and kohlberg"s constructivist approach to moral development is the idea that: They provided innovative and important theories about how moral reasoning develops. Rules are socially constructed and open to change.
