PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Moral Development, Ernest Hemingway, Reference Group
9 Dec 2014
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Moral is when you feel good after, and immoral is when you feel bad after ernest. Overview: 3 approaches: psychoanalytic, role of the moral emotions (shame, guilt, pride, freud, erikson, behaviourist, role of reinforcements and punishments, skinner, bandura, cognitive developmentalist, role of moral reasoning (thinking about right and wrong , piaget, kohlberg. Moral emotions: psychoanalytic/psychodynamic approach: superego is developed at end of phallic stage, oedipus or elektra complex is developed, morals gotten from parents. Punishment comes from superego: negative moral emotion (guilt) arises when these rules are broken, sense of being wrong after a specific infraction. Avoiding doing things to avoid guilt means avoiding doing bad things: ego ideal. Punishment comes from superego: shame arises when one hasn"t lived up to his/her code of ethics. Less specific feeling (i. e. not connected to a specific task: erikson adds pride to this, while removing sexual factors, moral development is not all about avoiding punishment, but also about receiving intrinsic reward.
