Moral Development Essays and Research Papers

This paper presents a similar phenomenon [to viewing a Rorschach inkblot] with respect to moral judgement, describing two moral perspectives that organize thinking in different ways. The analogy to ambiguous figure perception arises from the observation that although people are aware of both perspectives, they tend to adopt one or the other in defining and…

Lawrence Kohlberg was an American psychologist who proposed that people’s actions and decisions are based on and follow six stages. According to Kohlberg, these sequential and static stages represent an individual’s moral development and reasoning. Being constructive, these stages are the culmination of physical, mental, and emotional growth in an individual. Kohlberg separated these stages…

This essay will talk about the Theory of Moral Development. Lawrence Kohlberg developed the theory. He believed that people develop morals in stages on his scale of 1-6. Three characters from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee who illustrates Kohlberg’s theory of moral development are Scout, Atticus, and Jem Finch. Scout Finch, appears to…

Moral Relativism is the position that moral or ethical propositions do not represent objective or universal truths, but instead lean towards claims relative towards social, cultural, historical or personal circumstances. Jean Piaget, a famous developmental psychologist, theorized that morality starts from the early childhood years and develops throughout one’s life, being affected by any type…

Moral development is the way an individual’s moral sense changes from infancy to adulthood. The way an individual reasons during childhood is not the same as when he is an adult. According to Piaget, one’s moral sense develops by the encounters faced with the environment. As a whole, each experience one has with the outside…

In Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, Cpt. John Yossarian faces turmoil within himself after witnessing a member aboard his crew, Snowden, die all over him. Faced with the possibility of sudden death, Yossarian protects himself by as many means as possible. Through his existential crisis, Yossarian develops morally, changing from keeping guarded security of his life to…

In this Article “The Child as a Moral Philosopher,” psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg gives a clear description of his theory of moral development. Kohlberg uses the studies of seventy-five American boys of varying ages. He also uses boys from other cultures for instance Great Britain, Canada, Taiwan, Mexico and Turkey. Kohlberg uses these studies to determine…

Wiesler’s journey in moral development in The Lives of Othersis clearly mapped out as a path from the conventional level of thinking and reasoning to a more “principled” level. The stages from four, the society maintaining orientation, to stage six, the universal ethical principle orientation, is a big step and is a catalyst for many…

There are three levels in Kohlberg’s theory of moral development. Over time, an individual proceeds from one level to the next. The individual may not drop from a higher level to a lower level. Preconventional moral reasoning is the first level of Kohlberg’s theory. Kohlberg believed that moral thinking changed in predicted ways as cognitive…

John Bowlby theorized that infants and children need a loving and continuous relationship with the mother in order to grow up mentally healthy (Bowlby, 1951). Infants typically initiate the attachment process through stimuli such as smiling and clinging, but the parent’s response to the stimuli determines the strength or security of the bond (Hutchinson, 2016,…