Moral+Realism+Stage

toc = 1375986412 = = Definition: = The first of Piaget's stages of moral development, in which children believe rules are inflexible. This takes place at the beginning of the middle childhood period. HGD Chapter 10 p. 253

= Examples: = A six-year-old told Piaget that the game of marble's was invented on Noah's ark. He went on to explain that the rules can't be changed because the "big ones", meaning adults and older children, wouldn't like it. (Pg. 253)

= Analogies: = It is like having a family recipe passed down and not changing it because of your elders in your family having created it.

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