Question

Piaget examined children's conceptions of morality

a) using games with rules, such as marbles, and giving children moral dilemmas to solve.

b) by observing whether children obey a law or break a law for the benefit of an individual.

c) in tasks in which children receive some kind of payment that they then have to distribute among themselves and others.

d) by asking children to confess their transgressions.

Answer 1

1.Option A

In his work Moral Judgementof Child(1932) , Piaget who focussed on moral development through ages 5 - 12, draws a parallel of moral learning using example of children learning the game of marbles with many rules . As children develop, they begin to understand that the rules of games are not fixed and are flexible, this when tgey move their focus from outcomes to intentions . Before children learn to think and reason about the rules of marbles, they must actually learn how to play marbles, similarly before children can learn to think about morals, they must actually engage in morally relevant activity. According to Piaget practice and consciousness of morality is different with the former emerging before the latter.