Lifespan Paper
Anthony J. Hebdo
Ohio Christian University
May 13, 2018

Lifespan Paper
Prenatal development starts with conception. Conception is when a sperm cell reaches the egg and attaches to it. Then the egg becomes fertilized. The fertilized egg is called a zygote. A zygote is the fertilized egg: it enters a two-week period of rapid cell division and develops into an embryo (Meyers & Dewall, 2014). During cell division, the cells start to specialize and essentially decide which cell is going to become what. One cell becomes the brain, another cell becomes the organs and so on and so forth. About 10 days after conception, the zygotes attach to the wall of the mother’s uterus (Meyers & Dewall, 2014). The cells form two different parts; the inner cells become an embryo and the outer cells become the placenta. An embryo is the developing human organism from about two-weeks after fertilization through the second month of …show more content…
Kohlberg agreed with Piaget that a child’s moral judgements build on their cognitive development but he wanted to develop his ideas even further. (Meyers & Dewall, 2014). Both Piaget and Kohlberg proposed that moral reasoning guides moral actions. Kohlberg sought to describe the development of moral reasoning. Moral reasoning is the thinking that occurs as we consider right and wrong (Meyers & Dewall, 2014). Kohlberg used Piaget’s storytelling technique to tell people stories involving moral dilemmas. In each case, he presented a choice to be considered. His example was should a person steal medicine to save a loved one’s life? He asked children, adolescents and adults whether the action was right or wrong. He believed that their answers would give him evidence to different stages of moral thinking (Meyers & Dewall, 2014). He found that there are three levels of moral thinking: preconventional, conventional, and