Kohlberg

Method

Longitudinal study over 12 years

crosssectinal element as Kohlberg studied moral development in other countries as well as USA like Taiwan

High attrition rate (people are more likely to drop out)

Procedure

75 American boys aged 10-16 followed by 3 year intervals 22-28 years old

Participants were presented with hypothetical dilemmas

Moral stages

Pre-conventional- Up to the age of 9, punishment and obedience, instrumental relativist= right and wrong is determined by what we are rewarded for

Conventional- Most teens and adults, interpersonal concordance, law and order

Post-conventional- Over 20’s (only up to 15% of them) social contract, universal ethical principle

Ethnocentricism

It is not ethnocentric as it uses a wide variety of cultures as their sample

Type of data

Quantitative because it’s harder to compare results

Ethical issues

Wasn’t truly annonymous, as there were children’s names used