Correlations Between Kohlberg's Dilemmas and Real-World Moral Behaviour Are Relatively

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Essay

Correlations between Kohlberg's dilemmas and real-world moral behaviour are relatively low because responses to hypothetical dilemmas are often incongruent with a person's behaviours. Using examples, explain how these results show the difference between moral reasoning and moral behaviour.

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Definitions:

Schizophrenia

A serious mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.

Mania

Mania is a mental health condition characterized by periods of great excitement, euphoria, delusions, and overactivity, often seen in bipolar disorder.

Frantic Gesturing

The act of making wildly excited movements or signals, often as a form of non-verbal communication.

Catatonic

Catatonia refers to a state of psycho-motor immobility and behavioral abnormality manifested by stupor.