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Developmental Psychology

Chapter 7: Morality, Wisdom and the Life-span

Moral Development and Life-span Research:

-Longitudinal research: expensive, labor-intensive, takes a long time, research gets wrinkled and wither.
-Cross-sectional research: more suitable for research on moral development across the life span.

Definition of "Moral Maturity":
1. What is established in the early years remains more or less fixed throughout life; later experiences may expand this, but it is essentially a cumulative process: maturity is reflected in the range and depth of knowledge and skill the individual has acquired, and how effectively they are used.

2. Development across the life-span is through continual change and transformation; what we know or understand is integrated into successively more complex systems or stages. There is individual variation in the speed and extent of this progression. We expect adults to show more integrated and elaborated morality, but not all adults......

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