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Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development proposes that morality develops through six stages across three levels - pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional. The theory suggests moral reasoning progresses from a focus on obedience/punishment, to law and order, to universal ethical principles of justice. Kohlberg extended Piaget's work, studying hundreds of children across cultures. His stages outline how morality develops from external rules to internalized social norms to individual principles. The presentation discusses the key concepts and stages of Kohlberg's influential theory of moral psychology.

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Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development proposes that morality develops through six stages across three levels - pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional. The theory suggests moral reasoning progresses from a focus on obedience/punishment, to law and order, to universal ethical principles of justice. Kohlberg extended Piaget's work, studying hundreds of children across cultures. His stages outline how morality develops from external rules to internalized social norms to individual principles. The presentation discusses the key concepts and stages of Kohlberg's influential theory of moral psychology.

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Jean: Our presentation for today is all about Lawrence Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral

Development.
Rowell: Kohlberg Theory of Moral Development is one of the most important theories in the
field of human psychology. Lawrence Kohlberg was an American psychologist best known for
his theory of Stages of moral development. He has based his theory of moral development on
the findings of his studies conducted on hundreds of children from a different culture.
Cyrus: Kohlberg extended Piaget's theory, proposing that moral development is a continual
process that occurs throughout the lifespan. His theory outlines six stages of moral
development within three different levels.
Jean: Now may I present to you some important concepts of Kohlberg’s Moral Development of
Theory. Let’s start with Moral Realism which tells that rules are fixed and rigid we cannot break
the rules, if we break the rules we get punishment. For example, if you break the school rules
and regulations you get punishment.
Rowell: Next is the Moral Cooperation which tells that if your intention is right you can break the
rules. For example, if you break the traffic signal rules by allowing the ambulance to pass through.
Your intention of breaking the traffic signal rules is good because you know that ambulance need to
pass through to save the patient that needs help.

Cyrus: Next is the Moral Dilemma which tells that there’s a confusion between right or wrong.
For example, your family having a family vacation trip to visit your grandparents but you
promise to be with your groupmates to help with your group activity on the same day you might
have confused to choose the right one.

Jean: Lastly is the Moral Reasoning that it is a thinking process involved in the judgement of
question of right and wrong. For example voting for the right president that will run your
country.
Rowell: Now let’s proceed to the levels and stages of Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development.
The first level of morality is the pre-conventional morality. At this stage, we do not have a personal
code of morality. Instead, our moral code is shaped by the standards of adults and the
consequences of following or breaking their rules. At this level, authority is outside the individual
and reasoning is based on the physical consequences of the action. It can be further divided into
two stages which are obedience and punishment and Individualism and exchange. The first stage is
the obedience and punishment. This stage includes the use of punishment so that the children
refrains from doing the action and continues to obey the rules. The second stage is the
Individualism and exchange. In this stage, the person is said to judge the morality of an action based
on how it satisfies the individual need of the doer.
Cyrus: The second level of morality is the conventional morality. Conventional morality includes
the society and societal roles in judging the morality of an action. The second level of morality
involves stage 3 and 4 of moral development. At the conventional level, we begin to internalize the
moral standard of value adult role models. The stage 3 is the Interpersonal Relationships. In this
stage, a person judges an action based on the societal roles and social expectation before him. And
the stage 4 is the law and order orientation. This stage includes respecting the authorities and
following the rules, as well as doing a person’s duty. The society is the main consideration of a
person at this stage.

Jean: The third level of morality is the postconventional morality. The post-conventional
morality includes stage 5 and 6. This is mainly concerned with the universal
principles that relate to the action done. Individual judgement is based on self-
chosen principle and moral reasoning is based on individual rights and justice.
The stage 5 is the social contract and individual right. In this stage, the person
is looking at various opinions and values of different people before coming up
with the decision on the morality of an action. In other sense, once people
reach at stage five, they normally believe that society is a “contract” that they
enter in order to benefit everyone, while also recognizing that different society
has their different values. And the stage 6 is the universal ethical principles. The
final stage or highest stage of moral reasoning is based on when a person
considers universally accepted ethical principles. This judgement may become
innate and may even violate the laws and rules as the person becomes attached
to his principle of justice. In other sense, A person take risk of their own life for
save others life.

Rowell: And to sum up Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development this focuses on how children develop morality and moral
reasoning. Kohlberg's theory suggests that moral development occurs in a series of six stages. In addition, the theory also suggests that
moral logic is primarily focused on seeking and maintaining justice.

Cyrus: And before we end our presentation let me leave you this quote “BEING A GOOD
PERSON IS IMPORTANT IN LIFE, WHEN YOU GIVE GOOD OUT INTO THE WORLD YOU WILL
RECEIVE IT BACK”. That’s all and thank you for listening.

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