CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

MORAL DEVELOPMENT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the main concept of Piaget’s 1st Phase on Moral Development?
A
Morality is following the rules
B
Morality is a social agreement
C
It is a person’s internalization of social rules
D
based on egocentric concerns
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Piaget’s first stage included children between the ages of five and ten, whose moral reasoning had a “heteronomous” lens, or external to the self. This meant that laws were created and enforced by authority and were not to be broken at any cost.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Preconventional morality is the first stage of moral development, and lasts until approximately age 9. At the preconventional level children don’t have a personal code of morality, and instead moral decisions are shaped by the standards of adults and the consequences of following or breaking their rules.

Detailed explanation-4: -1. The Sensorimotor Stage. The sensorimotor stage is the first phase of children’s cognitive development. During this stage, children primarily learn about their environment through their senses and motor activities.

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