Lawrence Kohlberg

Examples of Lawrence Kohlberg in the following topics:

• Educational Psychology

  • Some of the more common theories used in educational and school psychology are Jean Piaget's theory of development and Lawrence Kohlberg's stage theory of moral development.

• Moral Development in Childhood

  • Lawrence Kohlberg focused on the development of moral judgments in children rather than on their actions.
  • He saw the child as a "moral philosopher. " Like Piaget, Kohlberg gathered his data by asking subjects questions about hypothetical stories.

• Developmental Psychology

  • Lawrence Kohlberg turned his attention to moral development: he said that we pass through three levels of moral thinking that build on our cognitive development.

• Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development

  • Lawrence Kohlberg expanded on the earlier work of cognitive theorist Jean Piaget to explain the moral development of children.
  • Kohlberg believed that moral development, like cognitive development, follows a series of stages.
  • Kohlberg emphasized that it is the way an individual reasons about a dilemma that determines positive moral development.
  • Critics argue that Kohlberg's theory cannot account for such inconsistencies.
  • Kohlberg identified three levels of moral reasoning: pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional.