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FINALS SCKWRK twelve zero two (seventy-two) LAWRENCE KOHLBERG - MORAL DEVELOPMENT

Lawrence Kohlberg (born October twenty-five, nineteen twenty-seven, Bronxville, New York, U.S. - died January seventeen, nineteen eighty-seven, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American psychologist and educator known for his theory of moral development.

Kohlberg graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in nineteen forty-five. He enrolled at the University of Chicago, where he completed a B.A. in psychology in one year and a Ph.D. in psychology in nineteen fifty-eight. He subsequently held teaching positions at various institutions before settling at Harvard University in nineteen sixty-eight.

While pursuing his doctoral degree, Kohlberg became interested in Jean Piaget's work on the moral development of children.

According to Piaget, children naturally progress from a form of moral reasoning based on the consequences of an act (e.g., punishment) to one that takes the actor's intentions into account. Kohlberg interviewed seventy-two lower- and middle-class white boys, presenting each with a moral dilemma: whether it would be permissible for a poor man to steal medicine for his dying wife. The children's responses became the basis of his six-stage theory of moral development.

Moral Development

Is the gradual development of an individual's concept of right or wrong, conscious, religious values, social attitudes, and certain behavior.