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Lawrence Kohlberg. Stages of Moral Development How do children learn right from wrong?. Moral Development.
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Lawrence Kohlberg Stages of Moral Development How do children learn right from wrong?
Moral Development • Defined by Miller as, “the process by which human beings learn to monitor their own actions and to decide whether a behavior is a “good” or “bad” thing to do and then inhibit inappropriate impulses.”
Kohlberg holds to the theory that people progress through a series of stages as they develop morally.
Each of the three levels and six stages is dependent on what is learned in previous stages.
Level One • Pre-Conventional Level
Stage One • Obedience and Punishment
Stage Two • Individualism, Instrumentalism, and Exchange
Level Two • Conventional Level
Stage Three • Good Boy, Good Girl
Stage Four • Law and Order
Level Three • Post-Conventional Level
Stage Five • Social Contract
Stage Six • Principled Conscience
Web Sites • www.nd.edu/~rbarger/kohlberg.html • www.muw.edu/nursing/tupelo/359g&d.html • www.xenodochy.org/ex/lists/moraldev.html