PIAGET

• Age 4-7: do not always understand rules devised by older children, but try to follow them

• Age 7-10: regard rules given them as sacred and unchangeable

• Age 11-12: see rules as established by consent, rather than being external and absolute

• Moral realism
• Moral relativism
• Morality of constraint is linked to intellectual development
• Morality of Cooperation

• Below 7 children focus on only one perspective-egocentric

• Below 11: cannot consider hypothetical situations or anticipate consequences and therefore cannot comprehend special circumstances requiring revision of rules