Essay On Kohlberg's Theory Of Moral Development

Introduction
Development psychology is the developments or changes happen in human beings in their life. It is a scientific studies of changes that happening over the course of the human’s life. Mainly dealt with infants and children, but also include adolescence, adult development and may whole life span. Developmental psychology deals with many branches including motor skills, psycho-physiological development and cognitive developments. Cognitive development which refers an area of problem solving, moral understanding and language acquire. It is a very vast area and need much more study about it.
According to the psychologist, when our body grows our behaviours and attitude is also changing

In this theory, the child is responsive to cultural rules and labels of good and bad, right or wrong. By studying the answers from children of different ages Kohlberg hoped to discover the ways in which moral reasoning changed as people grew older.
Kohlberg’s stages of moral development have three main levels and six stages. Each stages describe about the person’s moral changes. The first level of this development is preconventional morality. In the pre-conventional level mainly nine years old. In this level we don’t have a personal code of morality. In this level, he labeled stage 1 obedience and punishments. In this stage, the child is good in order to avoid being punished and stage 2 is individualism and exchange. At this stage, children understand there is no right view that is handed down by the authorities. The level 2 is conventional morality; it says that we begin to internalize the moral stand valued. In this view point, stage three is hood interpretational relationship and fourth stage is maintain social order, both explaining both become aware of the social rules. The level 3 is post conventional morality, in this level people judgement