Chapter 14: Moral Development

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Prosocial Behavior

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Voluntary Behavior intended to benefit another, such as helping, sharing, and comforting others

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Moral Judgements

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Decisions that pertain to issues or right or wrong, fairness, and justice?

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Social Conventional Judgement

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Decisions that pertain to customs or regulations intended to secure social coordination and social organization

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Personal Judgements

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Decisions that refer to actions in which individual preferences are the main considerations

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Conscience

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An internal regulatory mechanism that increases the individual's ability to conform to standards of conducts accepted in his or her culture

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Altruistic Motives

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Helping others for reasons that initially include empathy or sympathy for others and, at later ages, the desire to act in ways consistent with one's own conscience and moral principles.

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Aggression

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A behavior aimed at harming or injuring others

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Instrumental Aggression

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Aggression motivated by the desire to obtain a concrete goal

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Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)

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A disorder characterized by age-inappropriate and persistent displays of angry, defiant, and irritable behaviors

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Conduct Disorder

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A disorder that involves severe antisocial and aggression behaviors that inflict pain on others or involve destruction of property or denial of the rights of others

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Reactive Aggression

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Emotionally driven, antagonistic aggression sparked by one's perception that other people's motives are hostile

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Proactive Aggression

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Unemotional aggression aimed at fulfilling a need or desire