PSYCH 111 Chapter V: How Moral Are You?
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Psychologists generally define morals as those attitudes and beliefs that help people decide the difference between and degrees of right and wrong. Your concept of morality is determined by the rules and norms of conduct that are set forth by the culture in which you have been raised and that have been internalized by you. Lawrence kohlberg"s (1927-1987) research at the university of chicago incorporated and expanded upon many of piaget"s ideas about intellectual development and sparked a new wave of interest in this topic of study. Kohberg was addressing the question: how does the amoral infant become capable of moral reasoning? . Kohlberg believed that his theory of the formation of morality could be explored by giving children at various ages the opportunity to make moral judgements. If the reasoning they used to make moral decisions could be found to progress predictably at increasing ages, this would be evidence that his stage theory was essentially correct.
