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Diploma Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject Psychology -
Developmental Psychology, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin, 95
entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In this
diploma thesis I want to consider several approaches in the area of
moral development research.Given the theory of Lawrence Kohlberg,
young children (younger than 10 years of age) seem to stay
completely under the constraints of authorities and rules.
According to Kohlberg, children's social judgments and behaviors
are determined by instrumental aims to satisfy their own needs and
wishes, or to avoid punishment. In this regard, the helping of
others or meeting the needs of others is only motivated by
instrumental considerations. Thus, in Kohlberg's view young
children are not able to think or to act in a genuinely moral way.
In reaction to Kohlberg, other researchers have suggested that
young children are capable to make genuinely moral judgments and to
act in a moral way. Eisenberg (e.g. 1986) has suggested that young
children can have empathic or altruistic feelings which lead them
to conduct prosocial acts. Other researchers (e.g. Keller, 1996;
Nunner-Winkler, 1993) assert that children under the age of ten
years are able to understand and feel moral emotions, which they
consider as constitutive or as indicators for morality. Turiel and
his associates (e.g. Turiel, 1983) suggest that even children at
about 2 years of age are able to differentiate between a moral,
conventional, and personal domain of social knowledge, and that
children subordinate the importance of personal and conventional
rules under the importance of moral rules. These approaches to the
morality of young children revealed differing results to differing
aspects of morality. The aim of my work is to examine the above
mentioned approaches in order to evaluate the obvious differences
between their obtained results and the results of Kohlberg. My
questions are: Is Kohlberg's approach of using authority dile
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