Lecture six 9/27/2022
Moral personality
-Moral action > moral reasoning -Naruaez + Lapsley -Moral exemplars
Psychological tools
-Words -Language* -Mathematical tools
Preconventional reasoning
1. heteronomous morality: punishment and obedience 2. individualism, instrumental purpose, and exchange: eye for eye
Conventional reasoning
3. mutual interpersonal expectations/relationships, and interpersonal conformity 4. social systems morality: law and order, respect for the law, good citizen 4.5. "the cynic": community laws are made up by people
Private Speech (Vygotsky)
Children's self-talk, which guides their thinking and action; eventually internalized as silent inner speech (inner monologue)
Piagets theory of moral development
Heteronomous Morality -4-7 yrs -Realizing there is good in the world, and there is evil -Kids understanding of good and evil Autonomous Morality -8 and older -The intentions of people -Can be good or bad, depending on the intention
Postconventional reasoning
People develop own moral code 5. Social contract or utility and individual rights: follow spirit of the law but not the law itself, human spirit > law 6. Universal ethical principles: if something is wrong, you HAVE to take action
Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
preconventional, conventional, postconventional
moral development
what you think is right and wrong
Vygotsky
zone of proximal development and scaffolding