He was a very intelligent man, and taught many people about his theory. Although he has done many other things in his life besides working on his theory.
Lawrence Kohlberg was born on October 25th, 1927. He grew up in Bronxville, New York. Kohlberg was a volunteer sailor in World War ll. As a teenager Kohlberg attended Andover Academy in Massachusetts. Andover Academy was a private high school, and most of the students that attended this school were very intelligent and came from a wealthy family. After he graduated, Kohlberg took a job as an engineer in a carrier ship. While working on the ship, Kohlberg and others helped smuggle Jews from Europe into Palestine. Later after the war (1948) Kohlberg applied to the University of Chicago.
When Lawrence Kohlberg applied to the University of Chicago, he scored so high on the admissions test, he tested out of many courses, thus he only had to take a few. Kohlberg got his bachelor’s degree in a year. Lawrence Kohlberg then became very interested in cognitive development. He started to study cognitive development and moral development. He looked at Piaget’s research on moral development, and built his theory using Piaget’s studies as its foundation. In 1959, Kohlberg started working with the staff at Yale University as an assistant professor. He became the director of a child psychology training program.
Later, Kohlberg took a job at Harvard University. At Harvard he taught social and educational psychology. Kohlberg then started traveling around the world; studying moral development of citizens in different countries. While studying in Belize, Kohlberg contracted a tropical disease. This disease caused him an intense amount of pain and depression. He...
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When he was fifteen years old, his mother died from appendicitis. From fifteen years of age to his college years, he lived in an all-white neighborhood. From 1914-1917, he shifted from many colleges and academic courses of study as well as he changed his cultural identity growing up. He studied physical education, agriculture, and literature at a total of six colleges and universities from Wisconsin to New York. Although he never completed a degree, his educational pursuits laid the foundation for his writing career.
Rest, J., Narvaez, D., Bebeau, M., & Thoma, S. (1999). Postconventional moral thinking: A neo-Kohlbergian approach. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development is three levels consisting of two stages in each. Kohlberg’s Theory explains how a human’s mind morally develops. Level one is typically common in younger children. The two stages in level one are pre-conventional stages. Stage one is obedience and punishment driven; one will judge an action by the consequences given. Stage two is out of self interest. Level two is mostly common in teenagers. The stages in this level
Today I will be interviewing Baumeister, Gilligan, and Piaget who are some of the most influential psychologists in the field of moral development. I will be interviewing these three so and I have three critical questions in the field of moral development that I would like each to answer. I will then conclude with a brief summary of the similarities and differences between the psychologists I have interviewed.
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The field of developmental psychology is always being questioned and therefore expanded. Thousands of renowned psychologists have contributed to this process, two of which being Erik Erikson and Lawrence Kohlberg. They both left a hand print on the large and expanding wall of psychology; however they dabbled in very different aspects of development. Their similarities and differences aid in the determination of which gave more to the field of developmental psychology and in doing so gave more to the institution of psychology as a whole.
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The moral development of children can depend on many factors. Parenting and upbringing of the child, their environment, social environment, gender, and race are all aspects that can contribute to how a child develops their moral standards and expectations. Many psychologist have tried for several years to develop a theory to how morality is developed. One in particular is Lawrence Kohlberg (1958), his moral development theory is based on the cognitive development of children and it is thought that moral development proceeds and changes as cognitive development occurs (Arnett, 2012). Kohlberg’s moral development theory consist of 3 different levels each containing 2 stages altogether making 6 stages of moral development, as Kohlberg conducted
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Kohlberg, L. (1984). The psychology of moral development: the nature and validity of moral stages. San Francisco: Harper & Row.
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