Kohlberg's stages of moral development

Kohlberg’s theory on moral development links one’s age to a certain level of moral reasoning. As humans develop intellectually, they pass through 3 major levels of morality – Preconventional, Conventional, and Postconventional. Children between the ages of 9 and 12 are said to have Preconventional Morality, where reasoning is based on personal gain, disregarding society as a whole. This level breaks into two part – Obedience and Punishment Orientation and Individualism and Exchange. Children of…

the right behavior and what is the wrong behavior. Each person has different set of moral views, that can be influence by personal feelings, a group of other people or by the care for humanities as a whole. As people grow and mature, they go through a moral development causing them to change their moral views. Many argue that moral development is impossible to achieve, but other have proven that moral development is possible. As an individual matures or is faced by a crisis that their current…

It was his observations of his daughter and nephew that heavily influenced his conception of this stage. At this point in development, a child's intelligence consists of their basic motor and sensory explorations of the world. • The Preoperational Stage: (Occurs from 2-7 years of age) At this stage, kids gain knowledge through pretend play but still struggle with logic and taking the point of view of other people. They also often struggle with understanding…

dead, leaving Creon as the miserable ruler of Thebes. These differences in values can be described by moral development, which can be categorized into the different stages of Lawrence Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development and Carol Gilligan’s Ethics of Care Theory. Some reach all stages, some do not, and some go down in stages. The ends justify…

three developmental psychologists who have laid the foundations to what we know about development. These three psychologists are Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, and Lawrence Kohlberg. They have created theories of cognitive, psychosocial, and moral development. I tested out all three of these theories on two kindergarten kids, who I will refer to as Jane and John. I’ve determined where they are in the developmental stages and if I believe if their theories are reasonable and true. The kindergarteners…

the type of behavior that we see in stage two. Both Logan and Rory are receiving something out of the exchange and thus it is fine for them to have an affair. Kohlberg states that in these stages, higher levels of reasoning also contain the understanding of the lower reasoning stages. This “hierarchical integration” is due to the fact that these stages always move forward (Kohlberg & Hersh, 1977). Regression is only possible in cases of extreme trauma.…

internalize the moral values of his parents and culture and make them his own only as he comes to relate these values to a comprehended social order and to his own goals as a social self”. Kohlberg demonstrates that the apple never falls far from the tree, that a child does not only inherit genetic characteristics, but also absorbs behaviors from their parents. Harper Lee shows that when children are raised in a household with a parent already very high on the Kohlberg 's Stages of Moral…

interview assignment project. I interviewed my neighbor Gaby, who is 11 years old and my other neighbor Collin, who is 8 years old. Piaget acknowledged that some children may pass through the stages at different ages than the averages noted above and that some children may show characteristics of more than one stage at a given time (Koocher). After interviewing these two I believe this quote is a true statement because Gaby is 3 years older than Collin and during her questionnaire she had more…

Throughout life everyone goes through stages. These stages can tell a lot about a person and looking at the stages throughout someone’s life is a way of determining the way someone grew up or what they have gone through in their lives. Three different phycologists have examined these different stages you have went through in life to try and explain the stages. Although all three of their ways of looking at the stages a person goes through in life, all contain a few constants. Jean Piaget…

Piaget is considered one of the pioneers of cognitive development in children. His studies focused on the importance of the education of children theoretically and not specifically the methodology. The central idea of Piaget’s theory is that children develop their own theories of the world around them and these theories are based on interactions with not only the environment but also the people within it. He describes how children use “schemas” or actions to gain information about their…