Abstract

The paper is intended to review the traditional cognitive model of morality development from attributional perspective. The piagetian and/or Kohlberg's model has placed its principal focus on describing schematic change in moral judgement from the perspective of developmental stages. However, the model has relatively neglected the dynamic aspect of the moral judgement processes on micro-analytic level. Any moral judgement involves interpretational processes of the object behavior to be judged. It also can be assumed that the interpretation of behavior in moral judgement situation inevitably presupposes attributional processes. It is further reasoned that morality schema would develop in parallel with attributional development. This line of reasoning was substantiated in the paper by analyzing the traditional cognitive model from attributional perspective and further by conceptually relating kohlberg's model to developmental dimension of attribution theory. Finally, an experimental instruments for measuring attributional schema in relation to moral judgement situations were introduced.