Posted: April 24th, 2025

Human Resource Management Unit 6 Assignment Forum: Moral Development and the Heinz Dilemma

 
This unit discusses Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development and the Heinz Dilemma scenario. These help to classify an individual’s stage of moral development.   

Due Date:

Points: 100

Overview:

This unit discusses Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development and the Heinz Dilemma

scenario. These help to classify an individual’s stage of moral development.

Instructions:

How would you respond if faced with this dilemma? Based on your response to the

Heinz Dilemma, available below, what stage of moral development would Kohlberg say

you are in? Why? How might your response to this dilemma have changed if you were

in a different stage of moral development?

The Heinz Dilemma

A woman was on her deathbed. There was one drug that the doctors thought might

save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently

discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times

what the drug cost him to produce. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for

a small dose of the drug. The sick woman’s husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew

to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $1,000 which is half of what it

cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let

him pay later. But the druggist said: “No, I discovered the drug and I’m going to make

money from it.” So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man’s laboratory to steal the

drug for his wife. Should Heinz have broken into the laboratory to steal the drug for his

wife? Why or why not?

In addition, describe at least one criticism of Kohlberg’s theory of moral development.

Explain whether or not you agree with this criticism. Explain why or why not.

Requirements:

• By the Friday deadline, share your work with the class in this Unit 6 Assignment

Forum.

PSY201 – Child Development

Assignment Forum: Moral Development and the Heinz Dilemma

PSY201–Child Development
Assignment Forum:Moral Development and the Heinz Dilemma

• By the Sunday deadline, review your classmates’ work and provide at least one

(1) reply.

Evaluation Rubric for Moral Development Assignment Forum

CRITERIA Deficient Needs
Improvement

Proficient Exemplary

0-14 points 15-19 points 20-24 points 25 points

Response to
Heinz
Dilemma

Components
are minimally
or not
addressed.

Components
are somewhat
addressed.

Components
are mostly
addressed.

Components
are thoroughly
addressed.

0-29 points 30-39 points 40-49 points 50 points

Identify stage
of moral
development
based on
your
response.

How would
response
have changed
if you were in
a different
stage of
moral
development?

Components
are minimally
or not
addressed.

Components
are somewhat
addressed.

Components
are mostly
addressed.

Components
are thoroughly
addressed.

0-8 points 9-11 points 12-14 points 15 points

Peer
Response

No response
post made to a
classmate’s
posting.

Peer response
provided
though minimal
and lacking
depth by
restating or
summarizing
what was
already
expressed;
details and
new ideas
missing or
lacking.

Peer response
elaborates on
classmate’s
ideas with
further
comment or
observation but
does not raise
a question or
offer an
alternative

perspective.

Peer response
elaborates on
classmate’s
ideas with
further
comment or
observation;
presents a
relevant new
idea or
viewpoint for
consideration;
raises a
question or
politely offers
an alternative

perspective.

0 points 5 points 10 points

Posting Due
Dates

The
assignment
and response
were not
posted by the
due dates of
the unit.

Either the
assignment or
the response
was not posted
by the due date
of the unit.

Both the
assignment
and response
were posted by
the due dates
of the unit.