In Kohlberg's theory of moral development, postconventional reasoning is based upon:

In Kohlberg's theory of moral development, postconventional reasoning is based upon:
 
  a. a good-boy/good-girl orientation. c. social order.
  b. an obedience and punishment orientation. d. their own conscience.

Question 2

Women who experience postpartum depression:
 
  a. generally have low self-esteem.
  b. benefit from drugs that lower estrogen levels.
  c. never recover from it.
  d. can benefit from social support.

Question 3

Natalie believes that Heinz should steal the drug because it is his duty to save his wife. According to Kohlberg, this is an example of which level of moral development?
 
  a. preconventional c. postconventional
  b. conventional d. none of the above

Question 4

One in 500 to 1,000 women experience postpartum depression with psychotic features. Some of these mothers have delusions called ____ that their infant is possessed by the devil and that they should kill the infant.
 
  a. command hallucinations c. sadistic hallucinations
  b. critical hallucinations d. deviant hallucinations

Question 5

According to Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental theory, children progress at different rates through his stages of moral development and:
 
  a. they vary in the sequence in which they go through each stage.
  b. all children eventually reach the highest stage.
  c. most people remain in stage 2.
  d. not all children (or adults) reach the highest stage.

Question 6

According to the American Psychiatric Association (2000), postpartum mood episodes are accompanied by psychotic features in:
 
  a. 1 in 100 women.
  b. 10 in 100 women.
  c. 1 in 500 women.
  d. 1 in 500 women and/or men, as new fathers have been found to have depressive episodes featuring psychotic tendencies as well.

Question 7

Kohlberg researched moral development by using which of the following?
 
  a. the Heinz dilemmas c. an IQ test
  b. a conservation task d. the Moral Competency Scale

Question 8

A new mother is experiencing a break with reality and is having hallucinations. What may be wrong?
 
  a. postpartum blues
  b. postpartum depression
  c. postpartum depression with psychotic features
  d. nothing, as the symptoms described are quite common

Question 9

Ten-year-old Nathan has been taught by his parents that it's never acceptable to run into the street. However, he sees that his puppy has wandered onto the road, and after looking both ways, runs out to retrieve it. Nathan believes:
 
  a. he will be punished automatically.
  b. he has done something wrong, as he views rules as absolutes.
  c. that circumstances sometimes require breaking the rules.
  d. that he has been bad as he was not obedient to his parents.