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... Piaget had an interesting view on how children develop moral judgment (children’s understanding of moral rules and social conventions). He believed that their intellectual development determined their moral judgment. Piaget suggested that there were four stages of children’s moral understanding of rules. ...
Lawrence Kohlberg -an American psychologist who extended Piaget’s work on moral reasoning to adolescence and adulthood- suggested as individual’s mature, moral judgment includes more than just understanding social rules and conventions; it involves making decisions about right and wrong. In developing his theory, participants were presented with stories about moral dilemmas and then asked questions about the stories to estimate the kinds of reasoning they used. Kohlberg defined three levels of moral reasoning: preconventional, conventional, and post conventional. ... There are two trends that characterize progress through the six stages: (1) In the early stages reasoning is based on external consequences, whereas later it is based on internalized moral principles.
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