Megan Wants to Get a Cookie Before Dinner, but She

question 149

Multiple Choice

Megan wants to get a cookie before dinner, but she knows that's against her mother's rules. As she is considering getting a cookie she can hear her mother walking toward the kitchen where the cookie jar is. Realizing she would probably get caught and punished, Megan decides to leave the kitchen without a cookie. According to Kohlberg, which level of moral development is Megan currently in?

• A) Preconventional reasoning
• B) Conventional reasoning
• C) Formal conventional reasoning
• D) Postconventional reasoning

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Definitions:

Trypsin

Proteolytic enzyme formed in the small intestine from the inactive pancreatic precursor trypsinogen.

Nucleic Acids

Biomolecules essential for all known forms of life, which include DNA and RNA, responsible for storing and transmitting genetic information.

Enterokinase

Intestinal proteolytic enzyme that converts trypsinogen into trypsin.

Trypsinogen

An inactive enzyme precursor produced in the pancreas, that, once activated to trypsin, plays a key role in the digestion of proteins in the small intestine.