At the postconventional level, people solve moral dilemmas by relying on
A) external standards.
B) conventional wisdom.
C) personal moral codes.
D) society's laws.
Question 2According to Kohlberg, the highest level of moral development is the
A) conventional stage.
B) postformal operational stage.
C) postconventional stage.
D) preconventional stage
Question 3Lawrence Kohlberg is the most well-known proponent of the view that moral judgment involves
A) genetic predisposition.
B) intuition.
C) altruistic tendencies.
D) reasoning.
Question 4The fact that adolescents find it hard to integrate emotion and cognition might explain their susceptibility to
A) adolescent egocentrism.
B) the imaginary audience.
C) risk-taking behavior.
D) the personal fable.
Question 5In one study (Blanchard-Fields, 1986), high school students, college students, and middle-aged adults were asked to generate solutions to three hypothetical dilemmas that varied in the extent to which they were emotionally charged. What was a finding of the study?
A) College students exhibited the best reasoning overall.
B) College students surpassed the middle-aged participants but only when the dilemmas were emotionally charged.
C) Middle-aged participants exhibited the best reasoning but only when the dilemmas were emotionally charged.
D) Middle-aged participants exhibited the best reasoning, followed by the college students, who surpassed the high school students but only for problems that were emotionally charged.
Question 6At the resort, four married couples were having arguments over which activities to pursue. The couple who was most likely to effectively solve the conflict was
A) Jay and Joyce, who manifested low cognitive-affective complexity.
B) Bob and Barbara, who integrated reason and emotion.
C) Doug and Diana, who used intuitive reasoning exclusively.
D) Fred and Felicia, who reasoned with pure logical arguments.
Question 7Not all researchers agree that cognitive development in adulthood is characterized by
A) distinct stages.
B) metacognition.
C) relativistic thinking.
D) reflective thinking.
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