Moral Behavior Video Analysis

The author mentions that he doesn’t like how Kohlberg focuses too much on “why”. The author says that Kohlberg is narrow to focus on motivation rather the action itself. Another issue is how flexible or rigid each stage are presented. In the text a question is raised stating that can a person in stage 5 have a stage 1 morning. Basically the criticism here is that Kohlberg does not clarify weather his rules are bendable or not. The Author goes to on another criticism where he asks if justice is the most important ethical principle. He states that the sample size for someone to reach stage 6 is very small so why is justice the most important factor? Finally, his last criticism is how gender plays a different role in moral development. In Kohlberg’s research, most of which were young boys, he found the moral difference in young males. According the author Gilligan thought that Kohlberg’s research

Lawrence Kohlberg, a developmental psychologist, identified six developmental stages of human moral reasoning. The first stage that he recognized was the Punishment-Obedience Orientation, where the person’s concern is for avoiding punishment through obedience. The second stage was the Instrumental Relativist Orientation, where the person’s concern is to work in their self interest, and better their position. The third stage of moral development was the Good Boy-Nice Girl Orientation, where the person’s concern lies with their reputation. Next was the Law And Order Orientation, where the person was less concerned with their own immediate well being to the maintenance of a larger society. The fifth stage was the Social Contract

As stages in psychological development have been defined by Freud, stages in moral development have been outlined by early educators Jean Piaget and Kohlberg, who put forth differing views on the moral development of children. Piaget theorized that children process morals in stages, first one then the next, with a transition in between. The first stage (from ages 4 to about 7) is referred to as “heteronymous morality”, where children think of rules as constants, that is to say, rules are part of the world’s makeup with no input or possibility of change by people. As children progress from seven to ten years of age, they move from one stage to the next, maintaining some of the traits of the

First, Kohlberg’s theory of moral development started at preconventional stage. Preconventional stage is mostly found in children mindset where people follow the basic norms of obedience and consequence. Basically, this stage children or anyone who’s have this mindset accept and believe on authority, such as; parents, teacher or anyone who’s has jurisdiction over someone. Since this stage is whoever follow the rules will get accolade; therefore, there will be consequences on people who don’t follow the authority rules. The preconventional stage has two sub-stages that clarify the mindset children have. The first substage is: obedience and punishment; indeed it exemplifies that anyone's behavior is motivated to avoid any kind of punishment. For example, there’s a boy who wants a new smartphone; but the only approach is that the boy can’t get in trouble in school or at the house. The possible manner the boys has is to behave and avoid any activity that can hurt his chance of getting that new smartphone. This example, supports the claim where the boy avoids any activity that can prevent

The second level of Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral development is the Conventional Level. The Conventional level consists of stages 3 and 4. Stage 3 is based on interpersonal expectations. Those who are at this stage try to be a “good” boy or a “good” girl and live up to others’--such as close friends and family’s-- expectations. Stage 4 is based on Law-and-Order. They are not only focused on what their family and friends say; they are now focused on society. These stages are usually reached by early teens. They don’t blindly follow rules;

Kohlberg’s second level from his theory is conventional moral reasoning. This is primarily people following social norms and customs (Kohlberg’s Theory). The laws and rule are sustained simply because they are laws and rules that must be followed (“Kohlberg’s Moral Development”). The second level is generally found in society hence the name of this level being “conventional”. Stages three and four are included in the conventional level. Stage three focuses heavily on peer approval (Lawrence Kohlberg). Individuals are merely trying to please others so they will follow rules or do what others want them to do in order to gain their approval (“Kohlberg’s Moral Development”). Many will follow

In the book to To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a young girl is being put through a variety of challenges that have set her up to learn about aspects of life. Scout, the young girl is being put through situations throughout the book, and is going through different moral developments that have been set up into three levels by Kohlberg, a psychologist. Kohlberg gathered this information by giving people of different ages, different questions that would identify their moral stage (“Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development”). For example, some of the questions would be; if you were trapped in a room full of innocent people and someone dying would be the only way to save everyone else in the room would you risk yourself? On that

The interviewer in the video implied that a psychopathy is a result of both genetic and upbringing. The genetics of psychopathic behavior is passed on from one generation to another however based off how that individual is raised well determine the outcome of this behavior. In our textbook, it discusses that, “…the socialization process in families, the personalities, values, and beliefs of children are initially shaped.” (Regoli p 246). If a child is brought up in a family that provides a role model of being a productive member of society, then a psychopathy by genetics has an opportunity to flourish in society. Whereas the opposite is true of children produced by parents that practice hate and abuse. It is also important to remember that,

Antisocial personality disorder is defined as a mental disorder who habitually violate the rights of others without remorse. The criteria for APD are specified as observable behaviors such as failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors indicated by frequently performing acts that are grounds for arrest and or prosecution. Psychopathy is personality disorder with its narcissistic paranoid and borderline antisocial features. According to this week’s key concept video, they exhibit amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of the ability to love or establish meaningful and personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc. Sociopathy was used to describe an extremely manipulative dangerous and high risk offender without conscious. Now they are being described as someone with a psychopathic personality, who’s behavior is antisocial often unlawful and who lacks a sense of mora responsibility or social consciousness.

At the begging of the video, the mother was playing with the child and both of them were having fun. That makes me think that the infant trusted her mother because both were engaged in the play. “A sense of trust grows from fulfillment and satisfaction in the first year of life” (Gonzalez-Mena, 2017, p. 26-27). When the mother had her still face, the baby started to get her attention by trying to get her attention. She pointed, made noises and put her tow hand in front of her. Once she saw her mother wasn’t going to respond she started to get frustrated (mistrust) from the situation.

The assumptions in the video involved trying to learn if video games teach kids to be violent and/or provoke them to commit violent crimes -- for example, school shootings. A possible alternative discussed in the video was holding the parent accountable for the child and the child’s actions. Also, parents should provide games that are non-violent. The people who are against violent video games want to get rid of them and believe they are the source of the massacres that happen. The people who believe video games are fine the way they are say that the games are protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. Several critics insist that violent videos actually are connected to violent behavior in children. This behavior includes violent

This video relates to juvenile delinquency because it talks about kids who have broken the law and have been in and out of the system. The video shows kids that are placed in an alternative disciplinary home after getting in trouble with the law. The home is an alternative to jail and seems to be working well for the kids interviewed.

As a Christian, the subject of ethical behavior is not new to me. I was taught from a very young age what was right and what was wrong according to the teachings of the Bible. Even so, ethics in the context of the workplace is a rather new subject for me. The three videos that I watched talked about business ethics from different angles such as the growing popularity of ethical training in the workplace, how to gain ethical competence, and the consequences of not following ethical behavior.

Kohlberg’s stages of moral development were based on a moral philosopher by the name of Lawrence Kohlberg. His main interest was to observe children during growth to develop and conclude which stages they best fit into. After observing both adults and children, he concluded that, “Human beings progress consecutively from one stage to the next in an invariant sequence” (“Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development”). All of the 6 stages he created, represent the morality in which a child or adult can be at; he created an age zone for each stage. There are a total of 6 stages but each main concept consists of 3 levels. Level 1 is the preconventional stage. This stage focuses on punishment/obedience and how the person decides to act due to the

The theory of moral development, advanced by psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg is one of the most well-known persuasive theories in the field of cognitive science and stems from the work of Jean Piaget, which hypothesizes on the direct correlation that exists between moral and cognitive development. Kohlberg speaks of the appearance and understanding of what is right and wrong from childhood to adulthood and explains by this transition through the identification of various levels of morality known as pre-conventional, conventional and post conventional. People will make decisions based on the understanding of the possible outcome and through reasoning of morals. (Target Concept)