Moral Beginnings
This level of moral development is most common among young children, yet some adults think this way as well.
What is the Preconventional Level?
Kohlberg's Stage 3 is learning this from others.
What is social approval?
People in Stage 5 believe that laws should be based on this.
What are human rights or fairness?
Kohlberg formulated his theory from research using this type of moral dilemma.
What is the Heinz Dilemma?
This psychologist developed the six stages of moral development.
Who is Lawrence Kohlberg?
A child says, "I won't take the cookie because I don't want a timeout." This shows ___ stage.
What is Stage 1: Obedience and Punishment?
"I won't cheat because my teacher and parents would be disappointed." This is an example of this stage.
What is Stage 3: Interpersonal Relationships?
Stage 6 focuses on personal moral codes based on these.
What are justice, equality, and ethical values?
At the Preconventional Level, a person might say that stealing is okay if it helps them do this.
What is avoid harm or get something they want?
There are three stages of Kohlberg's theory: Preconventional, Conventional, and _________.
What is Postconventional?
Children at the preconventional level decide on the basis of self-interest or evading this.
What is punishment?
A person at the Conventional Level has respect for authority and follows rules because they believe that they maintain this intact.
What is society or social order?
Unlike at the Conventional Level, Postconventional thinkers can do so if they think a law is unjust.
What is break the law?
At the Conventional Level, a person might say stealing is wrong because of this.
What is it's against the law?
Kohlberg's theory was based on the moral development concepts of this other well-known psychologist.
Who is Jean Piaget?
This is the primary factor in moral decision-making in the first stage of Kohlberg's theory.
What is evading punishment?
Stage 4 is following these in order to maintain social order.
What are laws?
Someone who protests against an unjust law, discovering moral values take center stage, is reasoning at this level.
What is Stage 6: Universal Ethical Principles?
If someone will not lie because it violates their own personal moral standard, then they are likely at this level.
What is the Postconventional Level?
Kohlberg felt moral development goes on throughout this period of life.
What is adulthood?
In Stage 2, morality is understood as this kind of system, where individuals do good in anticipation of good in return.
What is a give-and-take or transactional system?
Someone who does not jaywalk even when there are no vehicles is operating at this level
What is Stage 4: Law and Order?
Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi exhibited moral reasoning at this level.
What is the Postconventional Level?
Someone who gives anonymously because they feel it's the right thing to do is operating at this level.
What is Stage 6: Universal Ethical Principles?
The major difference between Stage 4 and Stage 5 is that Stage 5 provides for this when laws are unfair.
What is questioning or changing laws?