PSYC 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Moral Reasoning, Social Cognition, Collectivism
10 Dec 2013
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No gender differences in 86% of the studies. themes of justice and care came equally. Evaluating turiel"s model: moral reasoning involves several independent domains of social cognition, children distinguish among these from an early age. Distributive justice and retributive justice: distributive justice, kids perform different amounts of work. Prosocial behaviour- those acts that society considers desirable and attempts to encourage in children (i. e. helping, sharing, conflict resolution). Roots of prosocial behaviour lie in the ability to feel empathy and sympathy. Empathy is the ability to experience or share another"s emotional state or condition. Sympathy involves feeling sorrow and concern for another in reaction to his/her situation or emotional state, without sharing the same emotion. Capacity to feel these emotions is also in non-human primates. True empathy requires a sense of self and others as separate individuals who have independent thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. Hoffman suggests that empathy gradually develops in a sequence of 6 stages as children mature cognitively.
