GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
KOHLBERG
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Question
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Laws are viewed as valid as long as they promote justice. People in this stage have their own sense of right and wrong.
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People in this stage believe that rules and laws are in place to help protect everyone’s rights.
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This stage focuses on the child’s desire to obey rules and avoid being punished.
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The right behavior is defined by whatever the individual believes to be in their best interest.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Stage 5 respondents basically believe that a good society is best conceived as a social contract into which people freely enter to work toward the benefit of all They recognize that different social groups within a society will have different values, but they believe that all rational people would agree on two points.
Detailed explanation-2: -Stage 5: Social Contract and Individual Rights This stage acknowledges the introduction of abstract reasoning as people attempt to explain specific behaviors. In our example above, the man should steal the medication for his wife because she is deathly ill and the laws do not take the circumstances into account.
Detailed explanation-3: -Stage 3-“good boy-good girl” orientation, This stage of moral development is focused on living up to social expectations and roles. There is an emphasis on conformity, being “nice, ” and consideration of how choices influence relationships.
Detailed explanation-4: -Postconventional morality is the third stage of moral development, and is characterized by an individuals’ understanding of universal ethical principles. These are abstract and ill-defined, but might include: the preservation of life at all costs, and the importance of human dignity.