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(Unit 8) Topic 2: Theories of Child Development

2 Clock Hours of Early Childhood Education

Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development

​Topic 2 Page 15

Lawrence Kohlberg was heavily influenced by Piaget, but wanted to understand how people developed morally.  He studied children’s responses to moral dilemmas, and identified six progressive stages that people pass through.  The primary concern of Kohlberg’s stages is justice.  In Kohlberg’s theory, children operate largely under the first two stages, and a large number of adults never develop beyond level four. 

The stages Lawrence Kohlberg identified are:

1. Orientation to obedience and punishment
2. Orientation to self-interest
3. Conformity and interpersonal accord
4. Orientation to authority and social order
5. Orientation to a social contract
6. Orientation to universal ethical principals

• Video: Kohlberg moral development | Individuals and Society | MCAT | Khan Academy​ 
• Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development, by Psychology Notes HQ · January 20, 2016

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