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A Reaction Paper to: "How Moral Are You?" by Kohlberg, L. (1963); The Development of children's orientationÂ…of moral thought & "Telling The Truth" by Barasch, Douglas S.(Family Life)


I read both of these articles and found them to be interesting. In the first article, "How Moral Are You?" published in Forty Studies that changed Psychology IV by Roger R. Hock, what is discussed is Lawrence Kohlberg's research on the formation of morality. Kohlberg believed the ability to moralize situations encountered in life develops in a specific pattern during our childhood years. He believed that a child must reach a certain stage and mentality in order to create a level of morality. I found the information he presented was interesting. Things such as: each ‘stage' a child undergoes increases the understanding of the concept of morality and the stages always occur in a step-by-step pattern.
Kohlberg reasoned the stages are "prepotent," meaning the child understands every stage......

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