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When asked what she thinks of mercy killing in which a doctor gave a terminally ill individual a lethal injection, Indira says, While some may see this as illegal, helping end someone's suffering is always justified.. This statement indicates that on this issue, Indira is at the _____ stage of moral development.
 
  a. authority and social order-maintaining morality
  b. morality of contract, individual rights, and democratically accepted law
  c. good boy or nice girl
  d. instrumental hedonism

Question 2

A researcher asked students of different ages What would the world be like if humans had tails? According to Piaget's theory, which one of the following answers would be most likely from an adolescent in the formal operational stage?
 
  a. People don't have tails, so this is a useless exercise.
  b. I guess they could swing from trees just like the monkeys I saw at the zoo.
  c. People would be able to hold tails and pass notes under the table while still keeping both hands on the table.
  d. I wouldn't like having a tail all the time.

Question 3

Kohlberg's highest stage of moral reasoning involves
 
  a. authority and social order-maintaining morality.
  b. the morality of contract, individual rights, and democratically accepted law.
  c. the morality of individual principles of conscience.
  d. instrumental hedonism.

Question 4

Concerning mental actions, concrete operations are to formal operations as
 
  a. objects are to ideas.
  b. knowing is to doing.
  c. imagined is to real.
  d. centration is to decentration.

Question 5

When considering whether or not to steal a car, Fairlane thinks, Stealing is good for the owner who will be able to collect insurance but bad for the insurance company because it has to pay. On the other hand, stealing provides a useful service for the police on the street because it gives them something to do, but it's bad for police at the station because if I am caught, they will have a lot of paperwork to complete.. Fairlane's multiple perspective approach is best classified as being at the _____ level of moral development.
 
  a. premoral
  b. preconventional
  c. conventional
  d. postconventional

Question 6

One key difference between formal operational thought and concrete operational thought is that formal operational thinkers
 
  a. show more centration.
  b. can apply thoughts to real objects.
  c. can solve conservation tasks.
  d. can think about hard to imagine hypotheticals.

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