DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INTRODUCTION CULTURAL INFLUENCES
ASSESSMENT 2026 EXTENSIVE QUESTIONS
WITH ACCURATE SOLUTIONS ON HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT GRADED A+
⩥ Preconventional (b). Answer: stage 2: reciprocity, mutual satisfaction
⩥ Conventional (a). Answer: stage 3: virtues trust, loyalty, kindess
⩥ Conventional (b). Answer: stage 4: attention to justice, authority
⩥ postconventional (a). Answer: stage 5: higher principles
⩥ postconventional (b). Answer: stage 6: "universal" human rights
⩥ Morals. Answer: thinking (about what to do), feeling (about what to
do or what was done), and behaving based on rules and customs about
how people interact with others
⩥ moral development. Answer: children develop an internalize moral
standards and develop an evolving more capacity that influences how
,they think about moral issues, feel about moral matters and behave in
complex situations
⩥ Piaget's Theory of Moral Development. Answer: stage based,
explained from cognitive perspective, determined from watching kids
play a marble game, 3 stages
⩥ Piaget up to 4 years. Answer: No rules, children are not concerned
with morality, rules are meaning less
⩥ Piaget 4 to 7 years. Answer: absolute rules, children believe rules are
fixed and unchangeable, they come from authority figures and are meant
to be obeyed, judgements on right and wrong are based on
consequences, break rules = punishment
⩥ Piaget 7 to 11 years. Answer: children realize rules are made by
people and can be changed, punishment should be linked to intent of
violator, realize that opinions and feelings of others matter
⩥ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral development. Answer: influenced by
Piaget and more elaborative, children must overcome egocentrism
before they can make true moral judgements
⩥ Preconventional (a) example. Answer: children follow rules because
adults tell me, fear of punishment motivates action
, ⩥ Preconventional (b) example. Answer: children develop and pursue
own interests, notions of reciprocity and mutual satisfaction emerge
⩥ conventional (a) example. Answer: people value trust, loyalty, and
kindness, impacts their their judgement
⩥ Conventional (b) example. Answer: moral judgements include
attention to justice and authority
⩥ postconventional (a) example. Answer: people realize that there are
greater rights and principles that support or are above the law
⩥ postconventional (b) example. Answer: people consider universal
human rights and follow their own conscience
⩥ Gilligan 's critique of kohlberg. Answer: critic of Kohlberg, kohlberg
research on males. gender bias, kohlberg focused on justice and not
interpersonal relationships
⩥ Gilligan 's Ethics of Care. Answer: male and female have different
sequence of moral development, justice (male concern) versus
interpersonal relationships (female concern)
INTRODUCTION CULTURAL INFLUENCES
ASSESSMENT 2026 EXTENSIVE QUESTIONS
WITH ACCURATE SOLUTIONS ON HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT GRADED A+
⩥ Preconventional (b). Answer: stage 2: reciprocity, mutual satisfaction
⩥ Conventional (a). Answer: stage 3: virtues trust, loyalty, kindess
⩥ Conventional (b). Answer: stage 4: attention to justice, authority
⩥ postconventional (a). Answer: stage 5: higher principles
⩥ postconventional (b). Answer: stage 6: "universal" human rights
⩥ Morals. Answer: thinking (about what to do), feeling (about what to
do or what was done), and behaving based on rules and customs about
how people interact with others
⩥ moral development. Answer: children develop an internalize moral
standards and develop an evolving more capacity that influences how
,they think about moral issues, feel about moral matters and behave in
complex situations
⩥ Piaget's Theory of Moral Development. Answer: stage based,
explained from cognitive perspective, determined from watching kids
play a marble game, 3 stages
⩥ Piaget up to 4 years. Answer: No rules, children are not concerned
with morality, rules are meaning less
⩥ Piaget 4 to 7 years. Answer: absolute rules, children believe rules are
fixed and unchangeable, they come from authority figures and are meant
to be obeyed, judgements on right and wrong are based on
consequences, break rules = punishment
⩥ Piaget 7 to 11 years. Answer: children realize rules are made by
people and can be changed, punishment should be linked to intent of
violator, realize that opinions and feelings of others matter
⩥ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral development. Answer: influenced by
Piaget and more elaborative, children must overcome egocentrism
before they can make true moral judgements
⩥ Preconventional (a) example. Answer: children follow rules because
adults tell me, fear of punishment motivates action
, ⩥ Preconventional (b) example. Answer: children develop and pursue
own interests, notions of reciprocity and mutual satisfaction emerge
⩥ conventional (a) example. Answer: people value trust, loyalty, and
kindness, impacts their their judgement
⩥ Conventional (b) example. Answer: moral judgements include
attention to justice and authority
⩥ postconventional (a) example. Answer: people realize that there are
greater rights and principles that support or are above the law
⩥ postconventional (b) example. Answer: people consider universal
human rights and follow their own conscience
⩥ Gilligan 's critique of kohlberg. Answer: critic of Kohlberg, kohlberg
research on males. gender bias, kohlberg focused on justice and not
interpersonal relationships
⩥ Gilligan 's Ethics of Care. Answer: male and female have different
sequence of moral development, justice (male concern) versus
interpersonal relationships (female concern)
