American psychology, despite a certain continuing resistance of many domestic psychologists to study it, a kind of arrogance and bias: “What about this?”, is an amazing, spacious field for all kinds of thoughts, discussions, experiments .When preparing a lecture on the topic of age periodization of personality, I wanted to focus specifically on the concept of moral development by Laurence Kohlberg. And although I have encountered quite a lot of caustic, caustic criticism of this theory (well, where would we be without it?), nevertheless, Kohlberg’s concept assumes the existence of universal stages of moral formation and inextricably links the understanding of morality with human cognitive development. Studying human reactions to a number of moral dilemmas, Kohlberg found that what is essential for moral development is not so much the solution to the dilemma as the course of reasoning that preceded this decision. But I will not delve into the theory, but will reveal the main stages of a person’s moral development. So, a person goes through three levels of moral development, each of which has two stages.1. Pre-moral level (the fear of punishment and the child’s desire to conform to a model of behavior, derived from it, dominate here). 1.1. Obedience and punishment 1.2. “Personal interest” (desire to receive reward)2. Conventional level (the level of generally accepted morality, in which public recognition becomes more important than personal interests. Shame in front of other people dominates). 2.1. The ability to evaluate behavior from a moral point of view2.2.Awareness of generally accepted moral laws3. Level of autonomous morality (the idea of ​​conscience dominates, one’s own moral paradigm is formed). 3.1. Awareness of the contradictions between different moral contradictions 3.2. Individual principles of conscience Taking into account the nuances of the theory of moral development, we can make adjustments to the age-appropriateness of these stages. So, the first level can cover ages up to 7-12 years. The second is up to 13-16 years old. And the third from 15-17 years old. Such discrepancies in periodization indicate the uneven development of personality, qualitative differences in its formation and individual characteristics.