Question

Jerome, 6, and Hani, 10, get up early on Saturday morning to make "breakfast in bed" for their mother. While reaching for the bed tray in the back of the hall cabinet, they accidentally break their mother's favorite porcelain doll. Jerome knows that he's going to get into "big trouble." Hani tells him not to worry and that their mom would understand that it was an accident. In what stage would Jean Piaget categorize the moral reasoning of Jerome and Hani?

a. Jerome - autonomous morality; Hani - heteronomous morality
b. Jerome - heteronomous morality; Hani - autonomous morality
c. Jerome - universal law morality; Hani - context - specific morality
d. Jerome - context-specific morality; Hani - universal law morality

Answer 1

B

Explanation:

Heterogeneous morality was given by Jean Piaget who studied childhood development and how children develop morality. Piaget called the first stage as heterogeneous morality that describes the child believes that rules have their innate authority and more simply put, the rules are the rules and that's it In this stage children are motivated by fear of punishment. Piaget believes that this kind of relationship with rules is the result of children's relationship with people in authority.

Autonomous morality is the second stage that begins to enter at the age of 10 years. Autonomous morality is defined as the child understanding that rules are made by people for people. The child using the autonomous morality is motivated by the spirit cooperation and tries to take into accounts, the need wants and feelings of others