Why might postconventional moral reasoning not appear until age 13 (if it does appear)?
a. The child needs more experience with moral dilemmas before postconventional reasoning will appear.
b. Postconventional morality requires the ability to engage in conservation.
c. Postconventional morality requires the abilities of formal operational thinking.
d. It is not until that age that morality is part of one's formal education.
Question 2For children, peer rejection in childhood can have serious long-term consequences, including all EXCEPT which outcome?
a. medical problems like cancer
b. dropping out of school
c. committing juvenile offenses
d. suffering from psychopathology
Question 3Adolescents with postconventional levels of moral thinking are more likely to
a. score high on intelligence tests.
b. be from Western industrialized countries.
c. have friends who act in moral ways.
d. act altruistically.
Question 4Which of the following parental discipline styles would be most likely to result in a rejected child in the classroom?
a. Martha does not discipline her child at all, and only occasionally sets limits on her behaviors.
b. Hank is very consistent with his discipline, and it combines occasional physical punishment with discussions and affection. Only when infractions are extreme is a spanking administered.
c. Henry is very consistent with his discipline, when tends to be more forceful and demanding of obedience and compliance.
d. Jessica is very inconsistent with her son, punishing misbehavior one day and then ignoring it the next day.
Question 5The relationship between moral cognitive development and moral behavior
a. tends to be an inverse relationship.
b. tends to be a positive relationship.
c. is largely unrelated.
d. tends to be positive for females, but inverse for males.
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