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Influence of Internal/External Instructions on Children's Moral Judgments

Past research, guided by Piaget's and Kohlberg's theories of moral development, has shown that young children base their moral judgments on the consequence of the story protagonist's behavior while older children base their judgments on the protagonist's intent. Three age groups of children (144 subjects) heard four stories and were placed in three conditions to investigate whether their judgments could be influenced by asking them to pay attention either to why the protagonist did what she or he did or to what happened in the story, or given no instructions. As age increased, children's recall of stories and use of a protagonist's intention as a reason behind their judgments increased. Judgment scores followed the same pattern for all ages. Results were discussed in terms of social-emotional and cognitive development.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc500590
Date08 1900
CreatorsParker, Deborah A. (Deborah Ann)
ContributorsGarfin, Deborah, Toledo, Jose Raphael, Hayslip, Bert
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvii, 100 leaves: ill., Text
RightsPublic, Parker, Deborah A. (Deborah Ann), Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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