Exam 12: A: Moral Understanding and Behaviour

Aggressive and antisocial behaviour is less common among people living in poverty.

Adolescents who are more involved in religion have greater concern for others and place more emphasis on helping them.

Self-control is the ability to control one's behaviour and to inhibit impulsive responding to temptations.

Simple acts of altruism do not appear until children enter school.

Pushing another child for no apparent reason is an example of reactive aggression.

Teacher ratings of aggression in 10-year-olds are related to adult criminal behaviour.

Carol Gilligan believes that moral reasoning becomes more sophisticated but that care and responsibility is the basis for moral reasoning, especially for women.

Children are more likely to act altruistically when they are in a happy mood.