Human Psychology 101: Understanding The Human Mind And What Makes People Tick by Alan G. Fields

Author:Alan G. Fields [G. Fields, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Make Profits Easy LLC
Published: 2016-06-13T21:00:00+00:00

Stages of Moral Development

Psychologist Jean Piaget is most famous for his work studying child development and defining different stages as they related to certain cognitive abilities, such as the ability to differentiate between the self and the other, the ability to differentiate between right and wrong, and the ability to start to see nuances within a moral code.

Building on Piaget’s work, psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg looked specifically at the moral development of people, defining six stages of moral development that a person can progress through as empathy and life experience increase. Kohlberg believed that a person’s sense of justice and morality developed throughout the course of a person’s entire lifetime.

The stages are meant to categorize how a person justifies their morality and not as a ranking system to judge how moral someone is in relation to others. That means that a person with a higher level of moral development won’t necessarily be more moral than one at a lower stage; he or she will merely have the ability to justify their moral perspective with great cognitive complexity.

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