1. The Self, Social, and Moral Development
Anna Griffith

2. Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development

3. Stage
Age Range
Event
Description

4. Theories of Moral Development
Kohlberg’s Levels of Moral Development
Nucci’s Domains of Moral Development
Preconventional
Stage 1  Obedience Orientation
Stage 2  Rewards/Exchange Orientation
Conventional
Stage 3  Being Nice/Relationships Orientation
Stage 4  Law and Order Orientation
Postconventional (Principled)
Stage 5  Social Contract Orientation
Stage 6  Universal Ethical Principles Orientation
Moral
Young Children  Justice means equal treatment for everyone
Special needs might alter what is truly equal treatment
Integration of equality and caring in social relationships
Adults  Moral principles are independent of group expectations  morality involves beneficence and fairness
Conventional
Young Children  Norms/regularities they can see are the right way to do things
Realize conventions are arbitrary when they see exceptions to norms
Understand rules are in place to maintain order  people in charge make the rules
Adolesence  View conventions as society’s standards which are widely accepted/applied and rarely altered
Adults  Conventions are useful tools in social realms but not static
Personal
Children evolve by differentiating between decisions/actions which come from personal choice and those which are imposed upon them