Should Heinz Have Stolen The Drug

9. Morality
I then administered Lawrence Kohlberg’s, moral development.
1. Should Heinz have stolen the drug? “Yeah, so he wouldn’t have to spend a whole bunch of money.”
2. Would it change anything if Heinz did not love his wife? “Yes, cause he could only be keeping the money for himself if he didn’t love his wife.”
3. What if the person dying was a stranger, would it make any difference? “Yes because he is a stranger.”
4. Should the police arrest the chemist for murder if the woman died? Logan did not seem to like this question. “Maybe the scientist was trying to keep the drug for himself to get money off of it.
According to Logan’s answers to the questions, I would say he is in: Stage 5. Social Contract and Individual Rights. Types of lessons that I have observed within the family that promote moral development include: helping others, supporting the family financially with groceries, and not asking people for money.
10.
Brain Development
There is no evidence of brain injury or defects in Logan. Activities that help nurture neural connections in Logan are playing video games and staying away from drugs and drinking. Logan chooses to socialize with friends that also play video games, which leads to less engagement in reckless behavior like drugs, drinking, and activities that can lead to getting hurt. Logan has a lot of down time after school, during this down time, in which, he plays video games
11. Cognitive Development
I administered Piaget’s formal operational sandwich task to Logan. I administered the task by explaining the directions to the teenager. I further then told him to tell me various ways to build a sandwich with various ingredients. The adolescent announced his thoughts and wrote them down. The adolescent was only able to construct seven different sandwiches.
Logan’s responses were:
1) Cheese, ham, and
bread
2) Bread and peanut butter
3) Bread and cheese
4) Bread and ham
5) Bread, ham, honey, and cheese
6) Bread and honey
7) Bread, peanut butter and cheese
“Formal operational thought is the fourth stage of Jean Piaget’s theory of development. In which, children can apply mental operations to abstract entities, allowing them to think hypothetically and reason deductively” (167 Kail). Logan did use formal operational thought by analyzing the sandwiches that could be made. The Adolescent understood that there are ways to make a sandwich even though it might not taste well.
When I asked Logan what his thoughts were if everyone in the world had purple skin, he gave me an answer I myself did not even think of. He stated. “I think it would be hard to recognize someone” (R, Logan). When I asked Logan this question he seemed shocked and confused, his eyes and mouth widened. “Abstract thought is the ability to think about things that are not concrete or tangible, such as ideas or concepts like justice, peace, and love” (Byerwalter “Jean Piaget”). Yes, Logan did use abstract thought while answering this question. Logan thought of an alternate world of people appearing with purple skin and understood that the world would probably be difficult and boring if our world had purple skin.