GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
KOHLBERG
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Question
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Humans gradually develop their moral reasoning
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Humans have only one level of moral development
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People choose their moral level
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Human actions are determined by a higher power
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Detailed explanation-1: -Kohlberg believed that by early adolescence most youth have reached the mid-level of moral reasoning called the Conventional Level. At this level, morality is determined by social norms; i.e., morality is determined by the rules and social conventions that are explicitly or implicitly agreed upon by a group of people.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Kohlberg interviewed 72 lower-and middle-class white boys, presenting each with a moral dilemma: whether it would be permissible for a poor man to steal medicine for his dying wife. The children’s responses became the basis of his six-stage theory of moral development.