Exam 13: Aggression, Altruism, and Moral Development

Which of these is LEAST descriptive of coercive home environments?

A grade-schooler says, "Whenever you're bad, you must get spanked 10 times." This fixed notion of punishment for its own sake is called

Identify three of Kohlberg's six stages of moral reasoning in their correct developmental sequence, from youngest to oldest.

A slogan of the hostile attributional bias would be,

Piaget studied children's respect for rules in the applied context of

Which of these approaches contributes the LEAST to a nonaggressive environment?

Scores on Kohlberg's measures of moral reasoning predict moral behavior

During Kohlberg's ____ moral level, the child is most concerned about following rules and how one's actions are judged by others.

During a disaster, a doctor refuses to rest because she feels obliged to do all that she can to save more victims. Her efforts are motivated by

Doing good by holding back on the temptation to do bad actions is called

Piaget's early studies of children's morality focused on these issues:

A girl imagines that an unknown boy shown on TV will feel lonely and sorry because he just lost both parents during a terrorist attack. The girl experiences

Outline how the nature and frequency of altruistic behavior changes during the preschool and elementary school years.

Bullies who beat up other kids because they get payoffs of various types from their actions apply

INSTRUMENTAL AGGRESSION is to HOSTILE AGGRESSION as ____ is to ____.

Because Kohlberg tended to focus on _____, he tended to _____ the moral sophistication of grade-school children.

Differentiate between hostile and instrumental aggression, and provide an appropriate example to illustrate each form of aggression.

The incompatible-response technique involves

Which of these is NOT among criticisms against Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning?

Outline how the nature and frequency of aggression changes during the preschool and early elementary school years.