What is morality in your own words?
Morality is the belief that some behaviour is right and acceptable and that other behaviour is wrong. A morality is a system of principles and values concerning people’s behaviour, which is generally accepted by a society or by a particular group of people.
What are the 5 stages of moral development?
Stages of Moral Development
- Stage 1 (Pre-Conventional) Obedience and punishment orientation (How can I avoid punishment?)
- Stage 2 (Conventional) Interpersonal accord and conformity (Social norms, good boy – good girl attitude)
- Stage 3 (Post-Conventional) Social contract orientation (Justice and the spirit of the law)
What is Piaget’s first stage of moral development?
After the age of two, up to the age of seven, children are in the first stage of Piaget’s moral development, where they are very rigid in their beliefs of moral concepts. Piaget termed this first stage the “Morality of Constraint” .
What is family morality?
Family morals are the beliefs that family members have about right and wrong, and good and bad.
How is ethics distinguished from morality?
A lot of people think of them as being the same thing. While they’re closely related concepts, morals refer mainly to guiding principles, and ethics refer to specific rules and actions, or behaviors. An ethical code is a set of rules that defines allowable actions or correct behavior.
What factors influence moral growth?
Moral development is strongly influenced by interpersonal factors, such as family, peers, and culture. Intrapersonal factors also impact moral development, such as cognitive changes, emotions, and even neurodevelopment.
Does morality depend on God?
God approves of right actions because they are right and disapproves of wrong actions because they are wrong (moral theological objectivism, or objectivism). So, morality is independent of God’s will; however, since God is omniscient He knows the moral laws, and because He’s moral, He follows them.
What are the three types of morality?
Moral absolutism, moral universalism, and moral relativism.
What are the sources of morality?
Here are eight, with links to peer-reviewed resources where you can find out more about each proposed source of morality.
- Science. What?
- Evolution. Evolution is invoked to explain many things.
- Culture.
- Politics.
- Emotion.
- Religion.
- Non-natural or Supernatural.
- Pluralism.
What is an example of moral development?
Moral decisions are based on either being good by following the rules or being bad by breaking them. For example, a child may think, ‘I don’t want to be spanked so I’m not going to hit my brother!’ Stage 2 is about self-reward. Moral decisions in this stage are based on getting a reward that is personally meaningful.
How do you promote moral development?
Ways to Promote Moral Development and Pro-social Behavior
- Offering a warm, nurturing, empathetic relationship between parent and child.
- Consistently behaving in a moral manner.
- Teaching respect through your parenting style.
What are the 7 steps of moral reasoning?
- 1 – GATHER THE FACTS. □ Don’t jump to conclusions without the facts.
- 2 – DEFINE THE ETHICAL ISSUE(S)
- 3 – IDENTIFY THE AFFECTED PARTIES.
- 4 – IDENTIFY THE CONSEQUENCES.
- 5 – IDENTIFY THE RELEVANT PRINCIPLES,
- 6 – CONSIDER YOUR CHARACTER &
- 7 – THINK CREATIVELY ABOUT POTENTIAL.
- 8 – CHECK YOUR GUT.
Why is the family the primary source of morality?
The closest family members play an enormously important role in children’s per- sonality development, having a significant effect on shaping all spheres of a child’s personality, when carrying out various everyday activities. The family is therefore considered to be the primary source of moral values.