PSYC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Moral Development, Child Development, 18 Months
9 Feb 2017
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Preconventional level - stage 1: punishment and obedience (punishment avoidance), stage 2: instrumental purpose (getting what you want by trade-off) Conventional level stage 3: good boy-good girl (morality of interpersonal cooperation) Meeting expectations of others stage 4: social-order-maintaining (fulfilling duties and upholding law) Postconventional stage or principled level stage 5: social-contract (sense of democracy and relativity of rules), stage 6: universal ethical principle (self-selection of universal principles) Kohlberg first proposed rights and justice orientation. Gilligan: built off and added caring for others orientation ethic of care. Both sexes use both orientations, but females may stress care more greater experience as caregivers. Child-rearing practices caring, supportive, discuss moral concerns. Skills for achieving civic goals, review pages 506-508. Victims and other children react strongly to moral offenses. Adults explain rights and feelings of victims. Customs such as table manners or dress styles. Peers seldom react to violations of social convention.
