GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
KOHLBERG
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Question
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That moral development continued into young adulthood.
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That moral development was complete by childhood.
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That moral development was innate and didn’t develop as we moved through ages.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Piaget’s Theory He proposed that between the ages of 5-9 years old, children develop moral realism; that is, they believe that morality is conducted by authority figures and breaking rules will lead to punishment.
Detailed explanation-2: -Piaget understands moral development as a construction process, i.e. the interplay of action and thought builds moral concepts. Kohlberg on the other hand, describes development as a process of discovering universal moral principles.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lawrence Kohlberg describes moral development as a process of discovering universal moral principles, and is based on a child’s intellectual development. Piaget conceptualizes moral development as a constructivist process, whereby the interplay of action and thought builds moral concepts.
Detailed explanation-4: -Cognitive in nature, Kohlberg’s theory focuses on the thinking process that occurs when one decides whether a behaviour is right or wrong. Thus, the theoretical emphasis is on how one decides to respond to a moral dilemma, not what one decides or what one actually does.