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Social Cognition and Moral

Development

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Social Cognition

Theory of Mind

False belief task

Autistic children

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Developing a Theory of Mind

Joint Attention

Pretend play

Imitation Emotional

understanding

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Developing a Theory of Mind, cont.

Desire psychology

Belief-desire psychology

Contributing factors Cognitive maturation

Language development

Cross cultural research--Peru

Social interaction

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Moral Development

Internalization

Affective, cognitive,

behavioral components

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How were you disciplined?

What was effective?

What would you change?

Moral Behavior--

Discipline/Punishment

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Critical Thinking Controversy--Should

Parents Spank?

Age of child?

Sex of child?

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Discipline, cont.

Consistency

Intra-agent

Interagent

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Power assertion

Love withdrawal

Induction Effectiveness/internalization

Discipline, cont.

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Coercive Family Environments

Negative/positive reinforcement traps

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Theories of Moral Development

Psychoanalytic Theory

Phallic stage--identification

Formation of superego Conscience, ego ideal

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Theories, cont.

Social Learning

Operant (instrumental) conditioning

Rewards/punishments Observational learning/modeling

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Theories, cont.

Cognitive-developmental

Piaget

Kohlberg

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Piagets theory

Rules

Moral dilemmas

Stages Premoral Moral realism (heteronomy)

Immanent justice

Moral relativism (autonomy)

Role of Peers

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Childrens Games Movie

QuickTime and adecompressor

are needed to see this picture.

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Kohlbergs Theory

Preconventional Level

Punishment Obedience

Instrumental hedonism Conventional Level

Good boy/Nice girl

Authority-maintaining

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Postconventional Level

Contract & democracy

Individual Principles

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Critical Thinking Application:

Is torture ever morally justified?

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Kohlberg, cont.

Stages are invariant

Can only advance

Cannot skip a stage Developmental changes

Begin at first stage

Most adults--stage 3 or 4

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Figure 12.5 Longitudinal Development of Moral Reasoning

Moralre

asoning(percen

t)

70

stage 1 stage 2 stage 3 stage 4 stage 5

Age (in Years)

10 3612 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34

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From Colby, A., Kohlberg, L., Gibbs, J., and Lieberman, M. (1983). A longitudinal study of moral judgment. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child

Development, 48 (No. 1-2, Serial No. 200). The Society for Research in Child Development.

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Kohlberg, cont.

Relation to cognitive reasoning

Relation to behavior?

Gender differences (Gilligan)--moralityof care vs. justice

Cultural bias?