Moral development
Piaget's 3 main aspects of children's understanding of moral issues
1.Children understanding the rules.
2.Children's understanding of responsibility
3.Children's understanding of justice.
first stage of a child's life according to Piaget
Sensorimotor
preocupational stage
third in Piaget's theory of cognitive development
concrete operational stage
begins at age 12 and lasts till adulthood
formal operational stage
Piaget's 2 main types of moral thinking
1.Heteronomous morality
2.Autonomous morality
The stage begins at birth and lasts till age 2
sensorimotor
key features of preocupational stage
centration, egocentrism, play, symbolic representation, pretend or symbolic play, animism, artificialism, irreversibilty
considered this stage to be a major turning point in the child's cognitive development
Piaget and Kohlger
adolescences
A term also known as moral relativism
Stage of autonomous
Divided the sensorimotor period into 6 different stages
Piaget
used three mountains test to see whether children were egocentric
Jean Piaget
a term Piaget used to describe developmental inconsistencies
horizonal decalage
Hypothetico, deductive reasoning, abstract thought
3 stages of formal operational
Used Piaget's storytelling technique to tell people stories involving moral dilemmas
Kohlberg
Should do this with your child to support healthy and cognitive growth
Play time
A child is no longer egocentric at this age
7
Childs ability to classify objects
group them by their color and shape
used by Piaget to test formal operational stage
pendulum mask
Kohlberg's different stages of Moral development
essential to your childs cognitive growth
holding, feeding, and bathing
Kohlgers opinion on this stage
where children begin to develop clearer methods of thinking
development of organized thinking
concrete operational
able to understand abstract principles which have no physical reference
adolescences