how conscience is a behaviour developed through social interaction (secular)

Question 1

Lawrence Kohlberg

Answer 1

• Christian
• American psychologist
• worked on child development followed from fascination with their reasoning in reaction to moral dilemmas

Question 2

Kohlberg & conscience

Answer 2

• 6 stages of moral development
• three levels within

Question 3

pre-conventional level

Answer 3

• primary school age
• begins with punishment and obedience where understanding of right & wrong is rewarded for right and punished for wrong

Question 4

conventional level

Answer 4

• adult age
• begins with development of good inter-personal relationships & concludes with decision to obey society’s rules & avoid guilt
• many never get past this

Question 5

post-conventional level

Answer 5

• begins with (utilitarian) recognition where needs of individual & society conflict & individual gives way to benefit society. Final stage is level of individualised conscience which directs that moral choices must be consistent & univariable to go against conscience leads to guilt

Question 6

typical Kohlberg dilemma

Answer 6

• needs of two induvial conflict and negative outcome for one
• used data accumulated by these tests to locate each pps in levels of reasoning

Question 7

Heinz dilemma

Answer 7

• Heinz’s wife is dying from a terminal cancer
• needs special drug which is being sold by one person and is expensive
  -tries to raise money and only raises half so tires to negotiate but fails
• breaks in and steals it

Question 8

how would the stages answer the dilemma

Answer 8

stage 1: shouldn’t steal as it is wrong and could go prison
stage 5: right to life and everyone has a right to this treatment
stage 6: theft always wrong so we refrain from stealing with inevitable result of death