When Children Begin to Recognize That Others Have Different Perspectives

question 101

Multiple Choice

When children begin to recognize that others have different perspectives, Kohlberg refers to this as:

• A) autonomous morality.
• B) instrumental morality.
• C) culturally generated morality.
• D) moral perspective taking.

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Definitions:

Orphanages

Residential institutions dedicated to the care of children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them.

Centration

The tendency of young children to focus only on one aspect of an object or situation, a characteristic of preoperational stage of cognitive development.

Egocentrism

A cognitive characteristic where an individual is unable to distinguish between their own perspective and that of others, often observed in early childhood development.

Piagetian Term

Pertains to concepts and terminologies introduced by Jean Piaget in his theory of cognitive development, which outlines how children progress through four stages of cognitive growth.