Right Wrong

Do You Know
Bad
Good
What’s Right
or Wrong?

By Jojo and Mon

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 01 INTRODUCTION

02 MORAL TEACHING
TABLE OF
CONTENTS 03 JEAN PIAGET

04 STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

01
Introduction
 Knowing good or bad behavior is an
important factor of growing up.

Behaviorist psychologists thoughts on good and

bad actions.

Before After
Actions were conditioned by We acquire our sense of
rewards and punishments. right or wrong in distinct
stages.
02
Moral Teaching
Moral Teaching
People thought that children’s moral development was determined by
teaching.

Psychologists suggests the idea of stimulus and response.

Good behavior = rewards
Bad behavior = punishments
Disagreement
● Others pointed out that most people haven’t committed a serious crime
and been punished for it.

● Although Albert Bandura suggested that we learn by imitating others,

children who play aggressive video games generally don’t go on to act
violently, since they know this is wrong.
 ALARMING

STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT 60

PERCENT OF PEOPLE WILL LIE AT
LEAST ONCE DURING A
TEN-MINUTE CONVERSATION
03
Jean Piaget
Piaget’s Study
● Focused on children moral development
● He asked what children thought about morally wrong things.
● He found that children
○ develop a sense of morality in stages.
○ learn best by exploring the world by themselves
○ develop their idea of right or wrong by interacting with others of the same age.

In the simplest of social games, we

In games, children alone makes rules find rules which have been
that reflect their evolving notion of elaborated by the children alone
- Jean Piaget
justice, equity, and reciprocity
04
Steps In The Right
Direction
Steps in the right direction
About 25 years after Piaget’s theory of moral development, Lawrence
Kohlberg took the ideas a step further. He agreed that we develop a sense of
morality in gradual stages, but felt that authority figures and society in
general do have an influence. Moral development continues beyond childhood
through adolescence.

Morality develops in six stages.

- Lawrence Kohlberg
Six Distinct Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3
Stages of Children are Realize that certain Try to conform to what
concerned with behavior can result they believe is expected, in
Development avoiding punishment in a reward order to be regarded as
“good” boys or girls

Stage 4 Stage 5 Stage 6

Recognize that there Begin to understand the Form a moral sense
are rules governing reasons for rules and social based on principles of
behavior laid down by norms, and how their justice, equity, and
authority figures behavior affects others reciprocity
 Passing judgment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBW5vdhr_PA
EXIT TICKET
reorder the six distinct stage of
development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKAaESWfhgU
 Good or Bad?

Psychologists believe that we are not born knowing

what’s right and wrong, but that we acquire this
knowledge as we grow up. Even so, the line between good
and bad is not clear-cut
THANK YOU