At what level of moral development are the rules and standards of society internalized and held as one's own?
a. Preconventional
b. Conventional
c. Postconventional
d. Unconventional
Question 2For the first time in his young life, Nemo is able to look at photos of aquatic animals and classify them as mammals or fish. He is also able to order them from smallest to largest. These skills indicate that Nemo has likely just entered the _____ stage of cognitive development.
a. formal operations
b. sensorimotor
c. preoperational
d. concrete operations
Question 3A hallmark achievement of concrete operational thought is being able to
a. solve object permanence tasks.
b. solve conservation tasks.
c. solve hypothetical problems.
d. use relativistic thinking.
Question 4Which of the following would Kohlberg consider the LEAST sophisticated stage of moral thinking?
a. Authority and social order-maintaining morality
b. Morality of contract, individual rights, and democratically accepted law
c. Morality of individual principles of conscience
d. Instrumental hedonism
Question 5Macy really wants the cool new jacket she has just seen in the store, but she does not have enough money to buy it. For a second, she thinks about stealing the jacket but decides that while stealing is not wrong, she might get punished if she is caught. Macy's moral reasoning appears to be at Kohlberg's _____ level.
a. preconventional
b. conventional
c. postconventional
d. unconventional
Question 6Four-year-old Kula is given a puppet and told to teach it all of the names that she can think of for certain animals and food items. At one point, she is asked the following questions about a lion: Is it an animal? and Is it a type of cat? Her correct response of yes to both questions indicates that Kukla understands
a. object permanence.
b. seriation .
c. hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
d. classification hierarchies.
Question 7Which conservation skills does a concrete operations thinker possess?
a. The ability to decenter, but neither reversibility nor transformational thought
b. Reversibility, but neither the ability to decenter nor use transformational thought
c. Transformational thought, but neither the ability to decenter nor to reverse
d. The ability to decenter, reversibility, and transformational thought
Question 8Which statement provides the best example of the morality of instrumental hedonism?
a. Doing evil is fun.
b. Wrong is always wrong.
c. I steal for you, you steal for me.
d. The law determines right from wrong.
Question 9What did Kohlberg use to assess moral reasoning?
a. Reactions to written moral dilemmas
b. Parental descriptions of their children's moral decision-making
c. A modified version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
d. Naturalistic observation of people in real-life settings