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The Homogeneity and Heterogeneity of Moral Functioning in Preschool
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Tan, Enda; Mikami, Amori Y.; Luzhanska, Anastasiya; Hamlin, J. Kiley – Child Development, 2021
The current study examined relations between distinct aspects of moral functioning, and their cognitive and emotional correlates, in preschool age children. Participants were 171 typically developing 3- to 6-year-olds. Each child completed several tasks, including (a) moral tasks assessing both performance of various moral actions and evaluations…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Response, Preschool Children
Young Children's Attribution of Intentionality to Themselves and Others
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Keasey, Charles Blake – Child Development, 1977
Piaget's notion that children's theoretical moral thought would evidence greater usage of intentionality toward self-oriented as opposed to other-oriented hypothetical situations was tested in 60 kindergartners and 60 first graders. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Early Childhood Education, Moral Development
Conflict and Transition in Adolescent Moral Development, II: The Resolution of Disequilibrium through Structural Reorganization
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Turiel, Elliot – Child Development, 1977
Subjects who previously participated in a study of stage transition in moral judgment were reinterviewed after a period of 1 1/2 to 2 years. The hypothesis that the conflicts and contradictions evident on the first testing would be resolved through structural reorganization was confirmed. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Conflict Resolution, Developmental Stages
Issues in the Developmental Study of How Children Use Intention and Consequence Information to Make Moral Evaluations.
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Grueneich, Royal – Child Development, 1982
Argues that, although Piaget's seminal work on children's use of intention and consequence information to make moral evaluations has spawned a substantial amount of research, progress in this area has been hampered by serious conceptual and methodological problems. Offers some methodological guidelines for conducting research in this area.…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Memory
Returning to Roots: On Social Information Processing and Moral Development
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Dodge, Kenneth A.; Rabiner, David L. – Child Development, 2004
Social information processing theory has been posited as a description of how mental operations affect behavioral responding in social situations. Arsenio and Lemerise (this issue) proposed that consideration of concepts and methods from moral domain models could enhance this description. This paper agrees with their proposition, although it…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Moral Development, Moral Values, Information Processing
The Development of Children's Integration Rules for Making Moral Judgments.
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Grueneich, Royal – Child Development, 1982
Third- and sixth-grade children rated nine single stories which combined three levels of intentions and consequences and which varied by order in which intention and consequence information was presented. Subjects also made choices for three story pairs which varied in terms of the order of presentation of intention and consequence information.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
Aggression and Moral Development: Integrating Social Information Processing and Moral Domain Models
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Arsenio, William F.; Lemerise, Elizabeth A. – Child Development, 2004
Social information processing and moral domain theories have developed in relative isolation from each other despite their common focus on intentional harm and victimization, and mutual emphasis on social cognitive processes in explaining aggressive, morally relevant behaviors. This article presents a selective summary of these literatures with…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Information Processing, Cognitive Processes, Aggression
Egocentrism and the Emergence of Conventional Morality in Preadolescent Girls
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Moir, D. John – Child Development, 1974
The development of moral judgment in 11-year-old girls is discussed in terms of the evaluation of role taking ability. (ST)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Females
Judgments of Intentionality in Response to Videotaped and Verbally Presented Moral Dilemmas: The Medium Is the Message
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Chandler, Michael J.; And Others – Child Development, 1973
These results suggest that previously published findings indicating that young children are unresponsive to issues of intentionality are methodological artifacts of the verbal assessment procedures employed. (Authors)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Processes, Grade 1, Moral Development
The Mediating Role of Cognitive Development in Moral Judgment
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Tomlinson-Keasey, C.; Keasey, Charles Blake – Child Development, 1974
The hypothesized central role of cognitive development in resolving moral dilemmas was examined in sixth grade and college-age females. Results indicated that sophisticated cognitive operations are a prerequisite to advanced moral judgments. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students
The Influence of Reasoning on Behavioral Choices at Different Stages of Moral Development
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Turiel, Elliot; Rothman, Golda R. – Child Development, 1972
Findings of this experiment demonstrate the interdependence of reasoning and action in the development of morality. (Authors)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Ethics