Running head: PIAGET & KOHLBERG RESEARCH ON THE COGNITIVE & MORAL DEVELOPMENT THEORIES OF JEAN PIAGET & LAWRENCE KOHLBERG DONNA O. O ’CONNOR INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF THE CARIBBEAN ABSTRACT The intention of this paper is to provide an overview of the psychological theories of Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg. While Piaget ’s perspective was psychological‚ Kholberg ’s viewpoint was psychological with emphasis placed on moral development and both theories will be compared and contrasted in this
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Potter’s moral development fit with Kohlberg’s moral stages and one other theory of moral development? Word Count: 958 Moral development is a process in which a child goes through up until their late teens early 20’s. This process is where the child develops the understanding of how people should treat each other. The development changes as the child gets older going through various stages where different morality levels are in place. This essay will look at moral development
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Educational Psychology Development 27 October 2013 Jean Piaget was an influential psychologist who created the Theory of Cognitive Development‚ which consisted of four stages. He believed that when humans are in their infancy‚ childhood‚ and adolescence‚ they try to understand the world through experiments. During cognitive development‚ children are little scientists that create experiments and conclusions on how to adapt to the world. By the time children become adults‚ they will be able
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Kohlberg’s theory on Moral Development opened up a new field of study in Western science. The theory gained momentum in the sixties and seventies and continues to inspire research today (Daeg de Mott‚ 2007). Kohlberg’s theory was the first of its kind and remains the foundation for all subsequent research into moral reasoning (Daeg de Mott‚ 2007). Kohlberg wrote the book “The Philosophy of Moral Development”‚ in 1981. He was also involved in many articles and professional journals‚ such as “The Just
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Understanding Moral Understanding Throughout time there has always been this nagging question of what is right and what is wrong. As of yet‚ there is no universal agreement on the correct answer to that question‚ which leads to wondering: how do we even begin to make the decision of morals and where do they come from? Are morals imbedded in us from birth or are they programmed into us through life‚ nature verses nurture? According to psychology moral understanding is a process. No one starts
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As educators‚ we need to understand the moral devel¬opment of our students. Why? The answer is‚ as a classroom teacher‚ we are confronted with hundreds of issues pertaining to our students’ moral reasoning each day. These may range from decisions they make about whether to cheat on a test to whether to be tolerant toward a classmate who is being picked on by others. Every day‚ our students make hundreds of comments and decisions that involve moral reasoning. Knowing how and when to respond‚ requires
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UNIT THREE MORAL AGENT A) Definition: MORAL AGENT A being whose actions are capable of moral evaluation. A competent and reasonably mature human somebody that has a capacity for making moral judgments and for taking actions that comport with morality. What characteristics does a moral agent has? Exist no universal / standard definition of a moral agent Moral agent possesses three criteria Moral Content
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model of moral development Theory of Development Erik Erikson is best known for theories of personality development. His theory details the impact of social experiences across a person’s whole life span. He believes that everyone’s personality develops in a series of stages. There are conflicts that a person experiences in each stage that helps them be successful or fail. The conflicts make a person have personal growth. There are eight different stages of Erikson’s development theory.
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Social and Moral Development As children grow and develop‚ they go through a variety of stages responsible for their social and moral development. The stages that Kohlberg has presented provide a framework of information that we are able to gather data from and identify behaviors as the child progresses through normal human development. Just like most things‚ social and moral development is molded by the surrounding environment and individual interactions. Just like the many other factors that
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Observation Paper 2 Jessica Catalano April 5‚ 2012 FAD3220‚ Section 06 Adolescence‚ the period after middle childhood‚ is a very crucial time in the life of an individual. Adolescence (age eleven through nineteen
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