Abstract: The investigation was undertaken to test the effects of two different train-ing procedures on the moral judgements in young children. A total of 125kindergartens and primary school children ranging from 5-11 years were in-volved, The results indicate that brief training programme can immediatelychange the orientation of children's moral judgement, but may somewhat berestricted by other variables of maturation of individual development. The re-sults also demonstrate that the principle explanation-type training was more effective than the verbal approval-type training.

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