PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes -Moral Reasoning, Immanence, Attribution Bias

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Definition: set of principles and ideals that helps an individual distinguish right from wrong. Moral maturity: motivation not based on reward/punishment, internalization of moral standards. The process of adopting the attributes or standards of other people taking these standards as one"s own. Includes feelings such as guilt, shame and pride in ethical conduct: moral reasoning. The cognitive component of morality: the thinking that people display when deciding whether various acts are right or wrong, contemplating morality, moral behaviour. The behavioural component of morality, actions that are consistent with one"s moral standards in situations in which one is tempted to violate them: what is actually done when tempted with a moral decision. Psychoanalytic theories emphasize affective component: feeling part of it . Freud"s theory that moral development occurs during the phallic period (3-6) when children internalize the moral standards of the same sex parent as they resolve their oedipus and.