Ethical issues in computing have been a concern for longer than the past seven decades. Attempts to address these issues include raising awareness and guiding computing professionals. However, these efforts have not been sufficient to end ethical issues in computing. Teaching computing ethics to students of higher learning institutions is one of the recent trends that attempt to address the problem before professionals reach the job market. While teaching computer ethics is gaining momentum in the West and European countries, there is still no consensus on what and how to teach computing ethics. Furthermore, some countries, like South Africa are still in the infancy stages when it comes to teaching computer ethics. In an attempt to answer this study’s research question, the critical analysis of related literature was kept central to the enquiry of this research. The use of active learning and the employ of cognitive psychology principles, to teach ethical theories to computing students, is proposed in this study. The approach is then introduced with an in-principle demonstration of how it works. The research shows that it is helpful to teach computer ethics with the guidance of cognitive psychology principles and that it may also contribute to universities producing ethical computing professionals.