Children's recognition and use of rules of moral conduct in stories  

Oleh:

Johnson, D. F. ; Goldman, Susan R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The American Journal of Psychology vol. 100 no. 2 (1987), page 205.
Topik: Children; Moral Conduct; Use of Rules; Moral Recognition
Fulltext: 1422404.pdf (2.56MB)

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This study investigated the degree to which children can (a) recognize rules of moral conduct in stories and (b) use the rules to group stories. Eighteen third-grade and 18 fifth-grade children listened to nine Bible stories that illustrated three rules of conduct: Helping, Not being afraid, and Obeying. Eighteen kindergarten children participated in a simplified version of the task that used two stories per rule. Results of a recognition task indicated that children at each age were able to identify individual story exemplars of the three rules of moral conduct. Pictures that were paired with each story were sorted into groups based on how children thought they should go together, both before and after story presentation. Cluster analyses of groups made during the sorting task showed significant differences between the story groups formed during the prestory compared with the poststory sorting, with the poststory sorts reflecting rule-based groupings for the older children. Story features that might compete with rules of moral conduct as the basis for sorting tended to be characters and actions. Discussion focuses on the relationship between identifying examples of rules and the spontaneous use of them as the basis for similarity groupings.

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