Social and Moral development

lecture 4

what is social development?

attachment (revisited) - john bolwby

achieving social development

parenting style

emotional development (ASD)

understanding others feelings (ASD)

emotional regulation (ASD)

moral development (case)

Not doing wrong (MD)

Doing right (MD)

Kohlberg’s theory of moral development

Pre-conventional level (1)

conventional level (2)

post-conventional level (3)

evaluating SD/MD

What does social development mean? What are some of the different components of social development?

2. What are the different types of social bonds that we form?

3. What is attachment? How is it studied? Why do we care?

4. What is social learning theory? What are some examples you can come up with in your own life?

5. What is cognitive developmental theory? Describe some ways in which cognitive development might drive social development.

6. How do we study parenting style? Is the association between parenting style and child behaviour likely to be one-directional or bidirectional?

7. When we talk about emotional development, what are the different things that children need to learn? Describe the trajectory for each.

8. What is moral development?

9. How did Kohlberg study moral development?

10. What are the levels and stages of Kohlberg’s theory of moral development.

11. Think about the Heinz dilemma. Make up a response that would fit into each of the stages from 1 to 5 (a. should he steal the drug? and b. why?/why not?)

12. What are the primary criticisms of Kohlberg’s theory?