In His Work on the Development of Moral Reasoning in Children

question 89

Multiple Choice

In his work on the development of moral reasoning in children, Piaget found that

• A) young children tend to be much more literal than adolescents in their interpretation of rules.
• B) eight-year-olds take into consideration the motive in wrongdoing.
• C) adolescents judge the degree of guilt by the magnitude of the crime, with no thought for the intentions of the wrongdoer.
• D) eight- and twelve-year-olds go through the same process and arrive at essentially the same conclusions in determining the degree of guilt for any given crime.

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