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Kohlberg's conventional level, typical of adolescents and adults, judges actions by:Read the answer and worked solution →According to Kohlberg, most active members of society reason at which stage?Read the answer and worked solution →Kohlberg held that a person reasoning at Stage 3 who moves up will next reason at:Read the answer and worked solution →Carol Gilligan criticised Kohlberg's theory mainly because it:Read the answer and worked solution →In Gilligan's model, the most developed moral position is centred on:Read the answer and worked solution →Kohlberg's six stages trace the growth of a morality centred on:Read the answer and worked solution →Cross-cultural tests of Kohlberg's stages found:Read the answer and worked solution →Haidt argues the reasons people give for moral choices are often:Read the answer and worked solution →Kohlberg found dilemma discussions raise a student's moral reasoning most when the partner reasons:Read the answer and worked solution →Kohlberg built his theory of moral development by extending the work of:Read the answer and worked solution →A person's actual genetic material is called the:Read the answer and worked solution →How a genotype shows up in observable, measurable traits is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these belongs to a person's phenotype?Read the answer and worked solution →A fertilised human egg grows into a baby, not an elephant, because of:Read the answer and worked solution →Even perfect nutrition cannot raise height beyond the limit set by:Read the answer and worked solution →An introvert-prone child grows up in a very social home. She may become:Read the answer and worked solution →Scarr held that the environment parents provide depends partly on their own:Read the answer and worked solution →In the nature-nurture debate, 'nurture' stands for:Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is a 'nature' influence on a child?Read the answer and worked solution →Who is credited with popularising the phrase 'nature versus nurture'?Read the answer and worked solution →The 'blank slate' view says behaviour comes almost wholly from:Read the answer and worked solution →Which philosopher's 1690 Essay is a foundation of the blank slate view?Read the answer and worked solution →Purist behaviourism, led by John B. Watson, stressed the dominance of:Read the answer and worked solution →Modern psychologists mostly see nature and nurture as:Read the answer and worked solution →Heritability describes how much differences in a trait, across a group, are due to:Read the answer and worked solution →A heritability of 0.6 for a trait refers to:Read the answer and worked solution →If all people were genetic clones, every trait's heritability index would be:Read the answer and worked solution →Identical twins share what share of their genes?Read the answer and worked solution →Genetically, fraternal twins are no more alike than ordinary:Read the answer and worked solution →Differences between identical twins mainly reflect:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Kohlberg's conventional level, typical of adolescents and adults, judges actions by:

  1. Personal reward alone
  2. Society's views and norms
  3. Self-chosen principles
  4. Fear of being punished
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Correct answer: B. Society's views and norms

1. The conventional level covers Stages 3 and 4. 2. It is typical of adolescents and adults. 3. Actions are judged by comparing them with society's views and expectations. 4. Rules are followed even when no reward or punishment follows. **Why not the others:** Self-chosen principles belong to the postconventional level; reward and punishment to the preconventional level. _Source: Wikipedia, "Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development", section "Conventional" (revision 1376737595)_

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According to Kohlberg, most active members of society reason at which stage?

  1. Stage 2
  2. Stage 4
  3. Stage 5
  4. Stage 6
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Correct answer: B. Stage 4

1. Stage 4 is the authority and social order (law and order) stage. 2. Kohlberg found most active members of society remain at Stage 4. 3. At this stage morality is still largely set by an outside force: laws and duties. 4. He suggested many people never reach postconventional reasoning. 5. Stage 6 was so rare he struggled to find people who used it consistently. 6. So the typical adult stage is Stage 4. **Why the other options fail:** - Stage 5 and Stage 6 are postconventional, reached by few. - Stage 2 is a preconventional stage common in children. _Source: Wikipedia, "Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development", section "Conventional" (revision 1376737595)_

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Kohlberg held that a person reasoning at Stage 3 who moves up will next reason at:

  1. Stage 5
  2. Stage 6
  3. Stage 4
  4. Stage 2
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Correct answer: C. Stage 4

1. Kohlberg's stages form an invariant sequence. 2. Stages cannot be skipped; each adds a perspective needed for the next. 3. A person cannot jump from Stage 3 (peer approval) straight to Stage 5 (social contract). 4. So the next step up from Stage 3 is Stage 4. **Why not the others:** Stage 5 is the trap: Kohlberg used exactly the jump from Stage 3 to Stage 5 as his example of what cannot happen. _Source: Wikipedia, "Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development", section "Theoretical assumptions (philosophy)" (revision 1376737595)_

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