Relationship between Level of Moral Development and Factual Learning in Situations with Moral Overtones
This study investigated the relationship between level of moral development and factual learning in situations with potentially strong moral overtones. 193 children in Grades 5 and 6 were interviewed using Kohlberg's moral judgment scale and were tested after a film-tape presentation on the Net...
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crsagepubl:10.2466/pr0.1978.42.1.243 2023-05-15T16:08:01+02:00 Relationship between Level of Moral Development and Factual Learning in Situations with Moral Overtones Taylor, Beverly Weidler 1978 http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1978.42.1.243 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2466/pr0.1978.42.1.243 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Psychological Reports volume 42, issue 1, page 243-253 ISSN 0033-2941 1558-691X General Psychology journal-article 1978 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1978.42.1.243 2022-04-14T04:43:31Z This study investigated the relationship between level of moral development and factual learning in situations with potentially strong moral overtones. 193 children in Grades 5 and 6 were interviewed using Kohlberg's moral judgment scale and were tested after a film-tape presentation on the Netsilik Eskimos. Analyses of variance indicated that there was a relationship between level of moral development and factual learning in situations with moral overtones but that this relationship did not interact with intelligence, level of academic achievement, sex, or grade level. It was also concluded that the highest moral development group (the conventional level) was different from the lower moral development groups (the preconventional level) in total factual learning, IQ, and level of academic achievement. Article in Journal/Newspaper eskimo* Netsilik SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Psychological Reports 42 1 243 253 |
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This study investigated the relationship between level of moral development and factual learning in situations with potentially strong moral overtones. 193 children in Grades 5 and 6 were interviewed using Kohlberg's moral judgment scale and were tested after a film-tape presentation on the Netsilik Eskimos. Analyses of variance indicated that there was a relationship between level of moral development and factual learning in situations with moral overtones but that this relationship did not interact with intelligence, level of academic achievement, sex, or grade level. It was also concluded that the highest moral development group (the conventional level) was different from the lower moral development groups (the preconventional level) in total factual learning, IQ, and level of academic achievement. |
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