The Four Component Model

Question 1

What is the four component model?

Answer 1

The model that explains that the produciton of a moral act entails four inner psychological processes.

Question 2

What are the four inner pscyhological processes?

Answer 2

1. Moral sensitivity
2. Moral judgment
3. Moral motivation
4. Implementation

Question 3

What is moral sensitivity?

Answer 3

The receptivity of the sensory perceptual system to social situations and the interpretation of the situation in terms of:
1. What actions are possible
2. Who and what would be affected by each of the possible actions
3. How the involved parties might react to possible outcomes

Question 4

What is moral judgment?

Answer 4

Deciding which of the possible actions is most moral by weighing the choices and determining what a person ought to do in such a situation.

Question 5

What is moral motivation?

Answer 5

Implies that the person gives priority to the moral value above all other values and intends to fulfill it.

Question 6

What is implementation?

Answer 6

Combines the ego strength with the social and psychological skills necessary to carry out the chosen action.