When Asked, "Why Is It Wrong to Take a Friend's

question 145

Multiple Choice

When asked, "Why is it wrong to take a friend's toy and not give it back?" Alexander, who is at Kohlberg's preconventional level of moral development, responds,

• A) "I know it is wrong."
• B) "It's not wrong; she needs to share it with me, because she has more than me."
• C) "Mommy and Daddy might get angry with me."
• D) "We must respect what belongs to others."

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Definitions:

Situationism

The theory that behavior is determined more by situations and environmental factors than by personal traits or motivations.

Relative Consistency

The degree to which an individual's behavior remains stable in different contexts over time.

True Interaction

An authentic exchange or engagement between people, which is genuine and not artificial or simulated in any way.

Suppressor Effect

A statistical phenomenon where a variable increases the predictive validity of another variable by controlling for or suppressing irrelevant variance.