Lawrence Kohlberg

Kohlberg’s Moral Development Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of moral development is very similar to Paget’s theory because he looked at Paget as a mentor. Kohlberg’s theory focuses the development of moral thinking, reasoning, and growth in an individual through invariant sequences of stages. Paget’s theory of moral development focuses on the understanding of change through children’s moral thoughts over time. They both believed that “cognitive development and relevant social experiences underlie…

betheluniversityonline.net/cps/default.aspx?SectionID=6730&tabid=155#2 Thompson, R. A. (2012). Whither the preconventional child? Toward a life-span moral development theory. Child Development Perspectives, 6(4), 423-429. doi:10.1111/j.1750-8606.2012.00245.x Lawrence Kohlberg developed his moral stage theory in 1969, revised it in 1971 (Thompson, 2012). His theory is prevalent in the field of psychology. It is widely used to assist individuals, mainly psychologists, with understanding how…

Where Piaget used two stages to categorize moral development, Kohlberg felt that moral development progressed through six stages represented by three different levels (Schunk, 2017). The preconventional level includes stage 1, punishment and Obedience, and stage 2, equal exchange in order to satisfy ones needs (Ryan…

Moral development is believed to be the foundation of ethical behavior. Lawrence Kohlberg believed that moral development progressed through stages, similar to stages of child development. Although Kohlberg described moral development as occurring over a series stages, the stages are hierarchical and discontinuous. Kohlberg believed that moral development occurred over a series of six stages. The stages include punishment orientation, naive reward orientation, good girl/boy orientation,…

ALED 424 Case Study 1 Jackie is a doctor at a private family practice in Waco, Texas. He and his wife have been invited to dinner at a nice, expensive restaurant by an old college friend that has recently been employed as a pharmaceutical representative for Fannie Mae Pharmaceuticals. Jim is a new pharmaceutical representative eager to make a good impression on his company. Jim represents the premium diabetes drug, Glucophage, and he wants to discuss with Jackie the benefits of prescribing this…

parameters of a hypothetical situation (Hunt, 2007) (Anne Colby, 1983). It was, however; in 1990 that Krebs and a colleague published a study demonstrating that regardless of the moral level individuals were found to reason at when tested with the Kohlberg dilemmas, in actual situations individuals are more likely to reason at a lower moral level (Hunt, 2007) (Kathy Denton, 1990). This famous study consisted of a total of eighty participants that were divided into four groups consisting of ten…

male psychological development, leaving mature women being labeled as ‘underdeveloped’. In “Women’s place in a man’s life cycle”, published in 1979, psychologist Carol Gilligan challenges the developmental theories proposed by Sigmund Freud, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Erik Erikson that label women as developmental failures, underdeveloped morally, and incapable of handling the crisis of forming an identity unless giving to her by a man. Gilligan…

• Every second of every day someone somewhere in the world is committing thievery and stealing from someone. • Rather it be in the music industry, the movies or taking credit for someone else’s idea, stealing is something that happens all the time in different ways, sometimes we don’t even realize we are pilfering. II. Music: • At one time Music was as simple as turning on the radio. It was 100% free to listen, of course the radio listener could not govern what song would be played, and not…

Lawrence Kohlberg applies three levels of morality to the three ethical climates (Manning & Curtis, 2015). A profit-maximizing ethical climate is a level I and displays pre-conventional morality. After reviewing the responses for a profit-maximizing organization…

Kohlberg’s Dilemma are hypothetical, moral problems used by Lawrence Kohlberg to illustrate the stages of moral development within adolescents to adults, which is explained using the Theory of stages of moral development. Kohlberg claims his theory can be applied universally; however, research have shown that culture has an influence on moral reasoning (Snarey, 1985, Shweder, Mahapatra & Miller 1990). His theory also states that moral judgement is based almost purely on cognition. However,…