By reaching the stage of early adulthood, we as an individual will undergo cognitive development, moral development and socio-emotional development (Santrock, 2013). When one experiences cognitive development, s/he will be able to acquire the ability to learn, grasp problem solving skills and able to develop decision making skill (Huitt & Hummel, 2003). Kohlberg’s theory of moral development consists of three levels which consists two sub-levels each. The first level is the pre-conventional morality continued by the conventional morality and post-conventional morality (Mcleod, 2011). According to Huitt (2008), by developing socio-emotional skills, one will be able to have a better understanding in managing emotions and will be able to increase …show more content…
By acquiring knowledge and expertise in the subject Mathematics and Chemistry, Will Hunting is able to solve a difficult graduate level Math questions that was written by Professor Lambeau on the board. Professor Lambeau is trying to challenge his students by given such difficult question and however, none of his students can solve the questions given. Will Hunting by acquiring the knowledge about Math is able to solve it and this causes Professor Lambeau to put another question about Chemistry on the chalkboard. As Will Hunting is also good in handling Chemistry, he is able to solve the questions given. He solved the questions correctly and it amazed Professor Lambeau as it was a questions that took him two years to …show more content…
For mutual interpersonal expectations, relationship and interpersonal conformity, Will Hunting is not able to value trust in his relationship with his girlfriend Skylar. Although he is able in building relationship with her, he is lies to her about his past life and refuses to introduce her to his friends. However, at the end of the story, Will Hunting is able to develop trust, caring and loyalty. He went to find Skylar in order to be together with her again. Stage four of Kolhberg’s moral development is social system morality which is meant by the moral judgment according to the understanding of law, justice and duty (Santrock, 2013). Will Hunting accept the fact of being imprisoned because he fight with the person who had once bullied him when he is young and he fight with the police officer who tried to stop the
The film Good Will Hunting starts by giving us a glimpse into a rather bleak moment in the life of Will Hunting, a college-aged janitor at the prestigious university called MIT. He lives the typical college life in many respects, from regularly meeting his friends at the bar to getting into a relationship built upon lies – with the glaring exception that he is not a college student whatsoever. In fact, he is portrayed as an undiscovered genius…at least until getting into trouble with the law leads to a bail out that eventually turns around his life for the better.
Good Will Hunting is the graceful tale of a young gentleman’s struggle to find out where he belongs in the world, by first finding out who he himself is. In this film, Matt Damon takes on the role of a disturbed genius that has a keen understanding of the deepness of human character. The film is a voyage through the mind of Will Hunting as he is required to undergo psychotherapy as an alternative to serving jail time. With the assistance of a psychologist, played by Robin Williams, Will learns about himself and recognizes his individual worth in the world by comprehending what is most important to him in his own life. This motion picture serves as a source of superb example for film technique. Gus Van Sant’s directing ability joined with the writing skills of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who also plays Will’s best buddy, Chuckie, is a vibrant mixture of technical features used to induce sentiment and compassion amongst the viewers of this heart-warming film. Characteristics of the color, angles, shots, camera movement, editing, and distortions are all each particularly noteworthy to the general composition of Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting.
moral development. In these stages, Kohlberg concentrates on the reasons why people act the way they do; not the way they think about their actions or what action they take, but the reasoning behind their actions.
Lawrence Kohlberg disagreed with Freud’s idea that the conscience and morality suddenly begin at age5 or 6, Kohlberg suggests that the development of morality is a gradual process that begins in childhood and continues to develop into adulthood.
In Kohlbergs moral stages five & six people begin to understand morals and social good then moral reasoning. Basic human rights become important as well as principles.
Erik Erikson developed eight psychosocial stages that occur through life. These stages help parents of younger children understand what the child is thinking and why they are acting the way that they do. For a person to become a well-rounded adult they need to succeed in each level. This essay will discuss the first six stages into young adulthood.
There has been a fifth stage of cognitive development suggested by many developmental psychologists, known as the post formal stage (Basseches, 1984; Commons & Bresette, 2006; Sinnott, 1998). In this stage, it is believed, that decisions are made based on situations and circumstances. Logic is integrated with emotion as adults develop principles that depend on contexts. The difference between adult post formal and adolescent formal operation thought can be noted in how they handle emotionally charged issues.
Good Will Hunting Movie Review A film made in 1997, Good Will Hunting is a movie that most people today still watch due to it’s heart-touching effect on it’s viewers. The movie follows the story of Will Hunting (played by Matt Damon), a bright man who has an extraordinary gift of retaining knowledge. Despite Will’s skills, he prefers to go out and get in trouble with his friends. Will works as a janitor at MIT and stuns a professor as he solves an equation that none of the students, nor himself, could solve.
The purpose of this report is to analyse the personality of the character, Will Hunting from the film Good Will Hunting using the psychodynamic and humanistic theories of personality. The main characters discussed in this text and their relationship to Will can be seen in appendix 1.
Kohlberg’s theory of the stages of moral development has gained some popularity despite being controversial. The claim that the levels form a “ladder,” the bottom being the immature child with a pre-conventional level and the top being a post conventional ethical individual. The sequence is unvarying and the subject must begin at the bottom with aspirations to reach the top, possibly doing so. (7) Research confirms that individuals from different cultures actually progress according to Kohlbergs theory, at least to the conventional level. Kohlberg’s stages of moral development continue to provide a foundation for psychology studies of moral reasoning. (6)
The sociological perspective examines the hidden reasons for one’s actions and identities that people have. It stressed how they are influenced by their society and most of all their social location. Social location predetermines all aspects of one’s life and there are rules that come with social location, and with rules come social control mechanisms and social stratification that keep people in line. With social location also come institutions that provide roles which form one’s identity. In the movie, “Good Will Hunting,” the main character Will Hunting is a young deviant what grows up in a rough neighbourhood and has the intellect of a genius. Role theory and other concepts from the sociological perspective explain Will Hunting’s actions and identity.
These studies say that all actions have a goal in mind. That would affect how children develop moral standards as well. An example of this would be, if a child knew that they were to get rewarded for things similar to potty-training or preforming well in school then they would try to do their best. The child would carry these lessons with them as they grow and mature. In this paper we will be discussing Kohlberg’s theory of moral development, giving insight into what other factors may affect the development of morality, and dissecting parenting placing emphasis on parenting and its effects that it may have. We will also be coving theories that challenge Kohlberg’s and bringing to light what Kohlberg may have missed or
This paper will discuss the relationship between Will Hunting and the psychologist Sean Mcguire in the movie Good Will Hunting. The struggles that occur between these main characters will be analyzed and their meanings found. A basic outline of the movie will be included to give the larger picture and its influence upon the two men.
What is moral development? In a nutshell, it’s the progression of morality throughout one’s lifetime by means of different stages. There are six of these stages, developed by Lawrence Kohlberg, that help to explain our moral choices and cognitive skills relative to our approximate age. Furthermore, as Kohlberg suggests, everyone reaches stages one through four: Punishment and Obedience, Instrumental Purpose and Exchange, Interpersonal Expectations and Conformity, and Law and order, respectively. Stage1 is characterized by the threat of punishment and the promise of reward. Stage 2 actions are
Kohlberg, L. (1984). The psychology of moral development: the nature and validity of moral stages. San Francisco: Harper & Row.