Kohlberg's stages of moral development

Psychologists’ Theories and Age Characteristics Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory The popular saying: “a place for everything and everything in its place” seems to be the motto of Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Theory. According to Piaget, humans were born with the proclivity to organize and adapt (Snowman & McCown, 2013). Piaget believed that as children interact with the world around them, they begin to “formulate organized patterns of behavior or thought, known as schemes” (Snowman & McCown,…

Moral development, based on Kohlberg’s theory, states that children undergo levels and stages of morals through the years of growing up; mainly in childhood. The theory says that they’re three levels — pre-conventional, conventional, and postconventional morality. Within those three levels, they’re two stages in each level: thus, having six stages in total. The stages themselves describe a child's behavior and their thinking. But, not every child goes through the same levels and stages at the…

Dr. Lawrence Kohlberg is best known for his dissertation for his masters where he observed the differences in morality in children during their developing years. This was a sharp contrast to Cognitive development and Behavior development, which were the popular sciences of the time amongst Psychologists. His experiments and observations, however, would help fill in missing gaps in previous theories, and open up a whole new field of study. History Lawrence Kohlberg was born on October 25, 1927…

Among the theories of human development, the one I most agree with is Kohlberg’s six stages of moral reasoning. Kohlberg’s theory outlines the stages of moral reasoning in a simplistic manner that one can follow and understand the process of each stage of the infant to adulthood life cycle. The first level 1, age 4 to 10 years includes stage 1 – 'Punishment and Obedience Orientation'. The child obeys rules given by others to avoid punishment. As such, the child does not fully understand…

Developmental Levels of Preschoolers (3-6 years): Cognitive Development (Piaget): The majorly of the preschoolers thought transitions are found to be categorized under ___ ___ (PREOPERATIONAL THOUGHT). Children start out in the phase of preconceptual thought until about 4 years of age, and then progress to ___ (INTUTIVE) thought, which lasts until about 7 years of age. While being in the preoperational phase, preschoolers tend to move from ___ (EGOCENTRIC) thoughts, into thoughts of ___ ___…

Section Five: Moral Development According to Kohlberg’s theory, Anna should be in level one which is the preconventional reasoning level. Kohlberg’s preconventional reasoning believes that children reach moral decisions by means of not wanting to be punished or for some type of reward. Preconventional reasoning has two levels. In the second level, children pursue their own interest but are mindful of others too. I would classify Anna as being in the Kohlberg’s second level, the conventional…

Adolescent Norm-Referenced Growth Criteria The stages of development for children are differ depending on gender. Females tend to hit their growth spurts before males do which leads to females tending to be slightly taller in elementary and perhaps parts of middle school. During the age range in which the film Flipped covers, males and females are likely to hit puberty with females generally starting earlier than males. Due to puberty, both genders will see a change in weight and height as…

In this paper I will cover the interview that I had with a child to evaluate their moral development according to Carol Gilligan and Lawerence Kohlberg. To evaluate the child there were two stories that I read and a series of questions that followed each story. Based on the response given by the child is how I could decipher where they were for moral development. Some basic concepts that are discussed in this paper are: welfare of others it is the “concern for the well being of other/s, hurt or…

Lawrence Kholberg believed that moral reasoning was not fully established by the ages 10-11 as Jean Piaget had originally proposed. In fact, Kholberg theorized that moral development had a lengthier and much more difficult progress (Robbins et al., 2012, p. 277). Like Piaget, he believed that each stage is connected and builds upon to apply moral reasoning throughout many different circumstances. However, there is no direct link between age and ethical perceptive (Robbins et al., 2012, p. 277).…

Nina Thueson Piaget’s stages of cognitive development: The sensorimotor stage, from birth to age 2 In this stage the infant learns and explores primarily through their senses and the world around them is only what they can see and make associations with. Piaget believed object constancy, which is when something only exists when can be seen, belongs in this stage. The preoperational stage, from age 2 to about age 7 This is the stage were kids struggle to see other people's point of…