PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 - Moral Development
8 Aug 2016
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Moral is when you feel good after, and immoral is when you feel bad after ernest hemmingway. 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. Superego is developed at end of phallic stage: oedipus or elektra complex is developed, morals gotten from parents. 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. 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. Only talk about things that one can see, touch and observe.
