Morality Paradigms
Behaviorism can be described as
A set of learned habits, attitudes, and values dependent on the social environment and reinforcement contingencies
The definition of Schema
Generalized knowledge structures about things and events
Freud's psychosexual morality complexes are
Males: Oedipal complex
Females: Electra complex
Piaget's Phases of Cognitive Development describe children from ages
2 - 11 years old
In Psychoanalysis, morality is best thought of as
Heteronomous Morality is characterized by
The child's belief that any action that shows obedience to adult authority is good.
Freud believed that morality arises between the ages of
4 and 6
Piaget's 4 phases of Cognitive Development
1. Sensorimotor
2. Preoperational Thought
3. Concrete Operational Thought
4. Formal Operational Thought
Cognitive Development proposes
People construct morality through active engagement in their social world
Autonomous Morality
Children develop an idea of the need for reciprocity in interactions; everyone has an equal right to justice.
Shame and guilt
Piaget believed that thinking changed in two major ways
Assimilation and Accommodation
The evolutionary/biological theory of morality states
Morality arises from a genetic predisposition to certain to social emotions and behaviors that have evolved through natural selection
Egocentrism
Someone's inability to understand that another person's view or opinion may be different than their own
Takeaway from Freudian theory
It should be a priority both to promote responsive parenting and to provide alternative caring adults for children who are not getting or did not get a responsive parent.
How Piaget explains how a child shifts states of thought
Equilibration