| A | B |
|---|
| Perspective-taking ability | Understanding that others have different feelings and experiences |
| Moral Realism | Stage of development where children see rules as absolute |
| Morality of Cooperation | Stage where children realize that people make rules and they can change them |
| Undifferentiated perspective-taking | A child recognizes that s/he and others have different thoughts but children frequently get confused |
| Social-informational perspective-taking | Children understand that different perspectives may result because people have access to different information |
| Self-reflective perspective-taking | Children can step in another person's shoes and view their thoughts and feelings from the other's perspective |
| Third-party perspective-taking | Children can step outside a two-person situation and imagine how the self and other are viewed by a third, impartial party |
| Societal perspective-taking | Individuals understand that third-party perspective-taking can be influenced by systems of larger societal values |
| Moral reasoning | The thinking processes involved in judgements about questions of right and wrong |
| Moral dilemmas | Situations in which no choice is clearly and indisputably right |
| Empathy | Ability to feel emotion as experienced by others |
| Aggression | Bold, direct action intended to hurt someone or to take property |
