This course content may not be shared, uploaded, or distributed. You may download course materials for your own
use, and upload into our Learning Management System. You may not and may not allow others to reproduce or
distribute course materials publicly. Public distribution of course materials is in violation of DCCC Policy 2.4 Academic
Honesty.
Assignment 5: Moral Disengagement (25 pts)
Notice: On the Assignment Page, there is the lecture PPT from class and ALL the materials for this Assignment.
===================
PART 2: Moral Disengagement (28 pts)
See Ch.8 Children’s Morality, Moral Rules of Child Culture, Empathy, Maturation (p. 265-269)
A. Briefly in your own words,
what is
Moral Disengagement? 2
Moral Disengagement is when we go against our moral values for a situation
B. For a situation of your choice [but don’t use direct/identical example from the lecture],
show how (explain)
a teen
might use each mechanism of moral disengagement. 17
i. What is the moral issue?
Stealing
ii. Moral Justification:
If I don’t steal this food,I wont survive
iii. Euphemistic Language:
I’m only doing it because I’m hungry
iv. Advantageous Comparison:
At least I’m not robbing the place
v. Distortion of Consequences:
It’s not a big deal, its only 5 dollars worth of food.
vi. Diffusion or Displacement of Responsibility:
Everybody has stolen something before.
C. Review your understanding of
Executive Function (p. 155)
. Why would we expect teens who remain
Morally
Engaged
to also have high
Executive Function
?
Use your moral issue from B
and
explain 3 reasons why.
9
C. Three reasons why we might expect teens who remain Morally Engaged to also have high Executive Function are
because they resist temptation, stay focused and take time to think before acting. Using my moral issue from B, this
wouldn’t have happened if the child stayed focused on being a morally superior person, resisted the tempo steal and
think before the acted.
