PSY BEH 101D Chapter 13: Chapter 13
27 Mar 2018
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Changes in thoughts, feelings behaviors regarding the standards of right and wrong. Heteronomous morality - piaget"s first stage of moral dev. (4-7yrs) - children view justice and rules as unchangeable properties of the world , removed from the control of the people. Ex- for the heteronomous view: breaking 12 cups accidently, is worse than breaking one cup intentionally. It is gender biased to favor attributes of males, because it uses a justice approach and not in a care perspective: however, just because moral reasoning is dependant on cog. , it is a one way streak - if the child acquires more cog. Dev. it doesn"t mean they will advance in moral reasoning too. It"s far too complex: peer relations can also promote perspective taking and moral reasoning, preconventional reasoning - lowest levels, good and bad are interdependent on rewards and punishment. This is achieved by the a mutual interpersonal agreement, and social systems morality of gov.
