Development of Personality and Mental function : Kohlberg
- Kohlberg
- Believed children acquire moral reasoning in developmental sequence
- Preconventional level
- Children determine the goodness or badness of an action in terms of its consequences.
- They avoid punishment and obey without question those who have the power to determine and enforce the rules and labels.
- They have no concept of the basic moral order that supports these consequences.
- Individual interest:
- Behavior driven by self-interest and rewards
- Conventional level
- Concerned with conformity and loyalty
- Interpersonal:
- Behavior driven by social approval
- One earns approval by being “nice.”
- Obeying the rules
- Doing one’s duty
- Showing respect for authority
- Maintaining the social order are the correct behaviors.
- Postconventional, autonomous, or principled level
- Reached the cognitive stage of formal operations
- Correct behavior tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been examined and agreed on by the entire society
- Social contract
- Behavior driven by balance of social order and individual rights
- Universal ethics
- Behavior driven by internal moral principles