Laws of Information Integration (109) Two Developmental Integration Theories (111) Comparing the Two Integration Theories (114) Moral Stage Theories (123) Moral Development: Looking Forward
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چکیده
Children are proficient integrators of stimulus information. They have followed the three mathematical laws of information integration in several areas of psychology, especially in moral cognition (e.g., Anderson, 1980, 1983, 1991c, 1996a, Chapters 6 and 8). These integration laws provide effective theory for studying cognitive processes through their development. These laws not only mirror the processes of integration but, of no less importance, they can also provide true measurement of the values that are integrated for each individual child. These nomothetic–idiographic laws provide unique power for developmental analysis. These integration laws disagree sharply with stage theories of development. Stage theories are attractive because development exhibits temporal evolution and stage frameworks promise to uncover regularity and order in this evolution. But stage theories cannot handle integration. Some have no place for value. Thus, they are inadequate empirically and misguided conceptually. A different conceptual approach is needed. One alternative approach rests on the laws of information integration. These laws revealed that young children have high cognitive capabilities that were obscured or denied in previous approaches. These laws can help unify developmental psychology with person science, social attitudes, judgment–decision, and learning (Chapter 8). These laws of information integration open a new conceptual direction for studying development across the life span.
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