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Briefly Describe and Evaluate Three theories of Moral Development.
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Briefly Describe and Evaluate Three theories of Moral Development The process in which children come to internalise standards of right and wrong with in their own social setting is called moral development. There are two ways in which psychologists define morals. 'Moral relativism' which is based on what is right depending on what county and culture a person lives in; all cultures have their own ideas of what is right and wrong, and 'oral universalism' which are values such as the preservation of life at all costs, which is of great importance to all cultures. Moral development is interpreted in different ways by different psychologists. 'Social learning theory' describes the way in which a child learns morally acceptably behaviour by observing important people in the child's life and copying them. It is believed that a child will behave in a way which is morally acceptable in the culture in which they...
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