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The age at which young children begin to make moral discriminations about harmful actions committed against themselves or others

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问题     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 male 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 than the cause of a transgression.
    However, in recent research, Keasey found that six-year-old children not only distinguish between accidental and intentional harm, but also judge intentional harm as naughtier, regardless of the amount of damage produced. Both of these findings seem to indicate that children, at an earlier age than Piaget claimed, advance into the second stage of moral development, moral autonomy, in which they accept social rules but view them as more arbitrary than do children in the first stage. Keasey’s research raises two key questions for developmental psychologists about children under age seven-, do they recognize justifications for harmful actions, and do they make distinctions between harmful acts that are preventable and those acts that have unforeseen harmful consequences? Studies indicate that justifications excusing harmful actions might include public duty, self-defense, and provocation.
    For example, Nesdale and Rule concluded that children were capable of considering whether or not an aggressor’s action was justified by public duty: five year olds reacted very differently to "Bonnie wrecks Ann’s pretend house" depending on whether Bonnie did it "so somebody won’t fall over it" or because Bonnie wanted "to make Ann feel bad. " Thus, a child of five begins to understand that certain harmful actions, though intentional, can be justified; the constraints of moral absolutism no longer solely guide their judgments.
    Psychologists have determined that during kindergarten children learn to make subtle distinctions involving harm Darley observed that among acts involving unintentional harm six-year-old children just entering kindergarten could not differentiate between foreseeable, and thus preventable, harm and unforeseeable harm for which the perpetrator cannot be blamed. Seven months later, however, Darley found that these same children could make both distinctions, thus demonstrating that they had become morally autonomous.
According to the passage, Darley found that after seven months of kindergarten, six year olds acquired which of the following abilities?
选项 A、Identifying with the perpetrator of a harmful action.
B、Justifying harmful actions that result from provocation.
C、Differentiating between foreseeable and unforeseeable harm.
D、Recognizing the difference between moral absolutism and moral autonomy.
答案C
解析 事实细节题。根据Darley定位到最后一段。该段最后一句明确指出，7个月后，达利发现这些孩子可以分辨这些伤害，其中的“这些伤害”指前一句提到的“达利认为刚进入幼儿园的6岁儿童不能区分可预见的伤害和不可预见的伤害”。因此，7个月后，6岁儿童可以辨别可预见的和不可预见的伤害，故答案为C项。
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