The age at which young children begin to make moral discriminations about harmful actions committed against themselves or others has been the focus of recent research into the moral development of children. Until recently, child psychologists supported pioneer developmentalist Jean Piaget in his hypothesis that because of their immaturity, children under age seven do not take into account the intentions of a person committing accidental or deliberate harm, but rather simply assign punishment for transgressions on the basis of the magnitude of the negative consequences causeD. According to Piaget, children under age seven occupy the first stage of moral development, which is characterized by moral absolutism (rules made by authorities must be obeyed) and imminent justice (if rules are broken, punishment will be meted out). Until young children mature, their moral judgments are based entirely on the effect rather
A. An outline for future research
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C. An analysis of a dispute between two theories
D. A discussion of research findings in an ongoing inquiry
The age at which young children begin to make moral discriminations about harmful actions committed against themselves or others has been the focus of recent research into the moral development of children. Until recently, child psychologists supported pioneer developmentalist Jean Piaget in his hypothesis that because of their immaturity, children under age seven do not take into account the intentions of a person committing accidental or deliberate harm, but rather simply assign punishment for transgressions on the basis of the magnitude of the negative consequences causeD. According to Piaget, children under age seven occupy the first stage of moral development, which is characterized by moral absolutism (rules made by authorities must be obeyed) and imminent justice (if rules are broken, punishment will be meted out). Until young children mature, their moral judgments are based entirely on the effect rather
A. Differentiating between foreseeable and unforeseeable harm
B. Identifying with the perpetrator of a harmful action
C. Justifying harmful actions that result from provocation
D. Evaluating the magnitude of negative consequences resulting from the breaking of rules
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from, and there are virtues which turn to vices with the lapse of years. The
worst of these is thrift, which in early and middle life is wisdom and duty to
practice for a provision against destitution. As time goes on this virtue is apt
to turn into the ugliest, cruelest, shabbiest of the vices. Then the victim of
it finds himself storing past all probable need of saying for himself or those
next him, m the deprivation of the remoter kin of the race; In the earlier time
when gain was symbolized by gold or silver, the miser had a sensual joy in the
touch of his riches, in hearing the coins clink in their fall through his
fingers, and in gloating upon their increase sensible m the hand and eye. Then
the miser had his place among the great figures of misdoing; he was of a
dramatic effect, like a A. his frankness B. his eminence C. his death D. his glory [单项选择]Passage Four
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