Exam 12: Morality in Thought and Action

Brigitte is a new mother and is trying to decide whether she will use physical punishment.Explain the findings of Gershoff's meta-analysis to parents like Brigitte.

All of the following are factors associated with greater use of physical punishment EXCEPT:

________ is the term used to describe the ability to adjust or recover from adverse events or situations.

There are laws about driving on a particular side of the road and laws against stealing.What most accurately describes how each of these rules would be considered?

Which of the following statements is true of cognitive and emotional empathy?

________ refers to the ability to hold off engaging in an action that will bring a desired result.

Bradley was presented with Kohlberg's dilemma about a man named Heinz who had to decide whether to steal a drug to save his wife's life.Bradley says that it is acceptable to steal the drug because a nice person does not let his wife die.What stage of moral development best describes Bradley?

Coach Crutchfield is a coach at a local elementary school.She works with children of all ages.Describe the types of differences Coach Crutchfeld has likely observed about how children in the heteronomous stage differ from children in the autonomous stage in reasoning about rules.

Jimmy is 5 years old and his brother, Fred, is 11 years old.A friend is visiting and accidentally breaks their mother's favorite vase while playing.Which most likely describes the brothers' reaction?

All of the following are true of Piaget's theory of moral development EXCEPT:

In his novel, Lord of the Flies, Golding suggests:

Low levels of arousal:

Marion tells her friends to exclude Cindy from their group.When Cindy sits at their lunch table, the group ignores her.This illustrates:

Differentiate between evolutionary and cultural views of morality.

According to the ________ approach, individuals are not bound to one or two forms of moral thought but instead may switch between several different forms as a function of the situation.

Gilligan emphasized all of the following in her theory EXCEPT:

Students who participated in the Free Speech Movement on the Berkeley campus in the 1960s were:

Describe Kohlberg's use of moral dilemmas to assess children's level of moral development.Provide an example of a moral dilemma.

Which of the following statements is true?

According to the ________ model of moral judgment, emotions like anger or contempt can be triggered automatically by perceived violations of norms and rights.