Moral Development
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Development is based on the changes in our thoughts, feelings and our behaviour. If the change is lasting or relatively permanent, it is considered to be a developmental change. The environment can also influence our behaviour, feelings or thoughts, and change our development. Genetics can also be a factor in development.
Moral development involves the gradual development of an individual’s concept of right and wrong. It includes the development of conscience religious values, social attitudes ad certain behaviour.
Research undertaken by Laurence Kohlburg has been broken down into 3 different subheadings and 6 different stages. The first stage is obedience and punishment where children see rules as fixed. Stage 2 is Self-Interest Orientation or Individualism where children learn that there isn’t just one right view. Stage 3 takes place in the adolescence age, social conformity orientation or good inter-personal relationships are developed. In this stage adolescence perceive a sense of what ‘good boys and girls do.’ Stage 4 is Law and Order orientation or maintaining social order where individual’s become more concerned with society as a whole when making judgement.
Stage 5 is where adults develop their social contrast orientation or individual Rights where people realize that there are different opinions to what make a good society.
The final stage 6 is where universal ethics orientation are developed and it is rare to develop this. However If you do then you realize that the principles of justice require us to get the claims of all parties.
The sub-headings are pre-conventional morality, conventional morality and post conventional morality.
Emotional development involves the development and changes on how an individual experiences different feelings and how these feelings are expressed.
Research conducted by ‘Bowlby’ looks at the emotional development of an infant and how they can create an emotional bond to another person (usually their
Development is based on the changes in our thoughts, feelings and our behaviour. If the change is lasting or relatively permanent, it is considered to be a developmental change. The environment can also influence our behaviour, feelings or thoughts, and change our development. Genetics can also be a factor in development.
Moral development involves the gradual development of an individual’s concept of right and wrong. It includes the development of conscience religious values, social attitudes ad certain behaviour.
Research undertaken by Laurence Kohlburg has been broken down into 3 different subheadings and 6 different stages. The first stage is obedience and punishment where children see rules as fixed. Stage 2 is Self-Interest Orientation or Individualism where children learn that there isn’t just one right view. Stage 3 takes place in the adolescence age, social conformity orientation or good inter-personal relationships are developed. In this stage adolescence perceive a sense of what ‘good boys and girls do.’ Stage 4 is Law and Order orientation or maintaining social order where individual’s become more concerned with society as a whole when making judgement.
Stage 5 is where adults develop their social contrast orientation or individual Rights where people realize that there are different opinions to what make a good society.
The final stage 6 is where universal ethics orientation are developed and it is rare to develop this. However If you do then you realize that the principles of justice require us to get the claims of all parties.
The sub-headings are pre-conventional morality, conventional morality and post conventional morality.
Emotional development involves the development and changes on how an individual experiences different feelings and how these feelings are expressed.
Research conducted by ‘Bowlby’ looks at the emotional development of an infant and how they can create an emotional bond to another person (usually their