What is the difference between Interpersonal Maturity Levels I-levels, Kohlberg's moral development model, and learning theories. Discuss each theory's relation to deviance?
What is the difference between Interpersonal Maturity Levels I-levels, Kohlberg's moral development model, and learning theories. Discuss each theory's relation to deviance?
1. The Interpersonal Maturity Level Classification System, also known as the I-level, was developed to enhance the effectiveness of treatments with delinquent youths. It identifies similarities and differences amongst delinquent youths in a manner so as to match the client with the therapist, treatment methods, and treatment environments. It is mainly geared toward preventing delinquency, substance abuse, and child abuse.
2. Lawrence Kohlberg extended the cognitive development theory given by Jean Piaget as moral development is linked with cognitive development as well. In his model, he said that people begin to develop morality and moral reasoning in a series of six stages, and they span across one's lifetime. In the six stages, morality is respectively based on obedience and punishment, personal needs, conformity, adherence to authority, social contract and individual rights, and universal ethical principles. In the development of his model, Kohlberg was not interested whether people's thinking was right or wrong, but only in the reasoning underlying their judgments.
3. Learning theories are based on classical and operant conditioning. They say that a person is born as a blank slate (tabula rasa), and that all behaviors are learned on the basis of reinforcements and punishments. Morality develops in a similar manner as well.
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