Exam 15: Moral Development

Hoffman (1970) pointed out that the foundations for prosocial behavior are laid in infancy when, for example, babies ______ when another baby cries.

Leon (1984) found a relationship between moral realism and:

According to Kohlberg, how do we diagnose a person's moral level?

Nunner-Winkler and Sodian (1988) found that children aged 8 years predicted that a child who managed to obtain some yummy sweets by stealing would:

According to Kohlberg's theory, a person who breaks the law to save a life is:

According to Piaget's theory, moral realism is:

According to Hoffman's theory, from about the age of 10 years children begin to understand the:

Nicholls (1978) criticized Piaget's moral stories on the grounds that:

Kohlberg's Level 1 coincides with Piaget's:

Kohlberg's Stage 4 is characterized by:

According to Piaget, ______ is related to egocentrism.

Eisenberg et al. (1990) discovered that when 4-year-olds witness another child in distress they:

When moral stories ______, as in Yuill and Perner (1988), then young children are much less likely to answer as a moral realist.

According to Piaget's theory, a child who judges an act according to the intent of the actor rather than the scale of the damage caused is defined as:

Wimmer et al. (1982) developed moral stories that varied the relation between:

In Piaget's stories about moral dilemmas, children below 6 or 7 years tended to judge the relative naughtiness of two protagonists according to:

Helwig and Turiel (2002) found that children as young as ______ years make a distinction between moral principles and social conventions.

Which of the following is an example of a violated social convention?

With respect to Kohlberg's stage theory, which of the following is FALSE?

In Piaget's moral stories, information about the protagonist's intent appears at the beginning of the story and information about the scale of damage caused appears at the end. Why does that matter?