1. The document discusses Kohlberg's stages of moral development, which range from obedience to authority to upholding universal ethical principles.
2. It provides examples to identify which stage of moral development each scenario demonstrates. The examples cover obedience, mutual benefit, social approval, law and order, and upholding social justice.
3. The document also summarizes a study Kohlberg conducted to test his theory of moral development. He gave hypothetical moral dilemmas to male participants over 12 years. His findings supported a six-stage model where individuals' reasoning progresses from rules to ethical principles.
1. The document discusses Kohlberg's stages of moral development, which range from obedience to authority to upholding universal ethical principles.
2. It provides examples to identify which stage of moral development each scenario demonstrates. The examples cover obedience, mutual benefit, social approval, law and order, and upholding social justice.
3. The document also summarizes a study Kohlberg conducted to test his theory of moral development. He gave hypothetical moral dilemmas to male participants over 12 years. His findings supported a six-stage model where individuals' reasoning progresses from rules to ethical principles.
1. The document discusses Kohlberg's stages of moral development, which range from obedience to authority to upholding universal ethical principles.
2. It provides examples to identify which stage of moral development each scenario demonstrates. The examples cover obedience, mutual benefit, social approval, law and order, and upholding social justice.
3. The document also summarizes a study Kohlberg conducted to test his theory of moral development. He gave hypothetical moral dilemmas to male participants over 12 years. His findings supported a six-stage model where individuals' reasoning progresses from rules to ethical principles.
1. The document discusses Kohlberg's stages of moral development, which range from obedience to authority to upholding universal ethical principles.
2. It provides examples to identify which stage of moral development each scenario demonstrates. The examples cover obedience, mutual benefit, social approval, law and order, and upholding social justice.
3. The document also summarizes a study Kohlberg conducted to test his theory of moral development. He gave hypothetical moral dilemmas to male participants over 12 years. His findings supported a six-stage model where individuals' reasoning progresses from rules to ethical principles.
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MODULE 8 Page 115-117
Identify the stage of moral development shown in the following:
1- Punishment/Obedience (One is motivated by fear of punishment. He will act in order to avoid
punishment 2- Mutual Benefit (One is motivated to act by the benefit that one may obtain later. You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. 3- Social Approval (One is motivated by what others expect in behaviour- good boy, good girl. The person acts because he/she values how he/she will appear to others. He/she gives importance on what people will think or say. 4- Law and Order (One is motivated to act in order to uphold law and order. The person will follow the law because it is the law. 5- Social Contract (Laws that are wrong can be changed. One will act based on social justice and the common good. 6- Universal Principles (This is associated with the development of one’s conscience. Having a set of standards that drives one to possess moral responsibility to make societal changes regardless of consequences to oneself. Examples of persons are Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King Jr.
____3___1. Joy allows her classmates to copy her homework so that they will think she is kind and will like her to be her friend.
____1____2. Ricky does everything to get passing grades because his Mom will take his play station away if he gets bad grades
____5____3. A civic action group protests the use of pills for family planning, saying that although the government allows this, it is actually murder because the pills are abortifacient (causes abortion).
____2____4. Jinky lets Hannah copy during their math test because Hannah agreed to let her copy during their sibika test.
____3____5. Karen decides to return the wallet she found in the canteen so that the people will praise her honesty and think she’s such a nice girl.
____4____6. John decides to return the wallet he found in the canteen because he believes it’s the right thing to do.
____4____7. Lyka wears her ID inside the campus because she likes to follow the school rules and regulations.
____5____8. A jeepney driver looks if there’s a policemen around before he u-turns in a no u-turn spots.
____6___9. Liza volunteers to tutor children-at-risk children in her community for free so they will learn to love school and stay in school.
____2___10. Little Riel behaves so well to get a star stamp from her teacher. Read a research that is related to Kohlber’g Theory. Fill out the table below.
Problem Research Findings Conclusions
Methodology Overemphasizes Kohlberg conducted a Kohlberg's six-stage According to Kohlberg's justice: Critics have longitudinal study over model of moral theory, some youth will pointed out that a period of 12 years. development is an eventually base their Kohlberg's theory of During this time in excellent tool for moral decisions on a moral development order to test moral understanding set of ethical principles overemphasizes the reasoning he gave 75 students at different that surpass existing concept of justice young American males stages of moral laws or rules. Other when making moral a series of hypothetical understanding. By youth will remain choices. Factors such and philosophical understanding this primarily concerned as compassion, caring, moral dilemmas in the theory of moral with rules, laws, and and other form of short stories. development, teachers fairness. interpersonal feelings can help to guide the may play an important moral characters of part in moral their students and help reasoning. them to become the best that they can be
Examine the answers you gave. Compare it with the responses provided below. In which of these responses is your answer most similar? (See green font portion below for my answer)
Stage 1- “Yes I will tell our parents. Because if they found out later that I knew, for sure they will get angry and most likely punish me.”
“No, I will not tell because Ryan will make my life difficult and also punish me for telling.”
Stage 2- “Yes I will tell my parents because they will reward me for telling it. I will subtly ask for that new Ipad that I’m wishing to have.”
“No I will not tell. Ryan will surely grant me a lot of favours for not telling. He’ll not also squeal on me.”
Stage 3- “Yes I will tell so my parents will think I am such an honest boy.”
“No, I will not tell. Ryan will think of me as really cool brother!”
Stage 4- “Yes I will tell because we should follow the rules that our parents say.”
“No, because it’s been our rule to keep each other’s secrets.”
Stage 5- “Yes, I will tell because he might be hurt or get in trouble and his welfare is top most priority.”
“No, because he is big enough to question my parents decision not to let him go.” Stage 6- “Yes, I will tell because lying is always wrong and I want to be true to what I believe in.”
“No, because I believe brothers watch out for each other. If he trusted me with this. I should stay true to him and not say anything.”
In what moral development did you response to the dilemma fall? Reflect about what this indicates about your moral reasoning in this dilemma.
Answer: For me I would tell it belongs to Post-conventional since it is based on enduring or
consistent principles. Law and Order. One is motivated to act in order to uphold law and order. The person will follow the law because it is the law. If Nic will tell his parents what happened even if it is difficult to Ryan’s side then he is just obedient to his parents because it is their law. He might assume what will be the punishment of his parents will lately found it. But if Nic will just stick with his brother’s promise in keeping each other’s secret then he is disobeying his parent’s rules whether it would take him to some consequences.
