Chapter 10

Key Terms

Theory of mind: the understanding that others may have different beliefs, emotions, and intentions from one’s own.

Morality of justice: the individual emphasises the importance of laws and moral principles when deciding what is morally acceptable.

Morality of care: the individual emphasises the importance of compassion and human well-being when deciding what is morally acceptable.

Peers: children of approximately the same age as a given child.

Mutually responsive orientation: a mutually cooperative relationship between parent and child.

Moral self: an individual’s self-perception of their moral values, internalisation of rules, guilt, empathy, and so on.

Effortful control: a personality trait relating to the ability to suppress dominant responses (e.g., those involving rule-breaking behaviour).

Weblinks

A video about Lawrence Kohlberg and his theory of moral development
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL3ADOS6XsY&feature=related

Kohlberg’s moral development theory: A video showing examples of the stages in his theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY4etXWYS84&feature=fvw

Professor Carol Gilligan talking about women and moral development
http://bigthink.com/carolgilligan#!video_idea_id=13321

A lecture by Carol Gilligan on moral injury and the ethics of care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axTmbbXPJ8g

A biography of Carol Gilligan
http://www2.webster.edu/~woolflm/gilligan.html

A useful summary of the role of the parents in development
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/29/science/parental-influence-new-subtleties-found.html?pagewanted=all

YourMorals.org: Where you can learn about your own morality, ethics and/or values, and also contribute to scientific research
http://www.moralfoundations.org/

Eysenck, M.W. (2009). Cognitive development. In M.W. Eysenck (Ed.), A2 level psychology. A section of this chapter isdevoted to the development of moral reasoning
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781848720091/