Table of Contents
Religious Development in Children
Psychological Research on Religious Development I
Questions which need to be addressed
Basic Ideas in Development of Religion I
Basic Ideas in Development of Religion II
The Nature of Childhood Religion
Perception, Language, and the Meaning of Symbols: Cognitive Mechanisms
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
Limitations of Children’s Understanding
Examples of Children’s Understanding
Family, Social Context, and Personal Needs:
Social Learning Theory
Social Learning Theory
Attachment Theory
Attachment Theory
Interaction of Attachment and Social Learning
Interaction of Attachment and Social Learning
Practice versus Belief
Tamminen (1991) Study of Children’s prayer
Cognitive Factors in Moral Development
Piaget’s Two Stages of Moral Reasoning
Kohlberg’s Six Stages of Moral Judgment
Level I: Preconventional Morality (age 4 - 10)
Level II: Conventional Morality (age 10 - 13)
Level III: Postconventional Morality (adolescence - adulthood)
Examples of Stages 1 Through 6
Example of Kohlberg Dilemma
Scoring Moral Reasoning Level
Critique of Kohlberg’s Model
Stages of Religious Development
Elkind’s Stage Theory
Elkind’s Stage Theory -- Need 1
Elkind’s Stage Theory -- Need 2
Elkind’s Stage Theory -- Need 3
Elkind’s Stage Theory -- Need 4
Research on Religious Stages -- Harms (1944)
Research on Religious Stages -- Goldman (1964)
Goldman 1964
Goldman 1964
Goldman 1964
Goldman 1964
Pealting (1974, 1977)
Religious Stages in Prayer
Long, Elkind, and Spilka (1967)
Long, Elkind, and Spilka (1967)
Long, Elkind, and Spilka (1967)
Perceptions of God and Retardation
Conclusions
|
Author: Steve Falkenberg
Email: Steve.Falkenberg@eku.edu
Home Page: http://www.psychology.eku.edu/falkenbe
Other information:
Steve Falkenberg
Professor of Psychology
Eastern Kentucky University
|