Moral Development (Scenario) Jerri Has Been Daydreaming About Stealing Some Money from the Money

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Moral Development (Scenario)
Jerri has been daydreaming about stealing some money from the petty cash file at her employer's office in order to pay some overdue bills. But in reviewing the chapter on ethics from her management course, she learns that there are three levels of moral development, each composed of two stages. She becomes ashamed about her idle thoughts of stealing and reads on to try to learn more about the levels and stages of moral development.
-Although Jerri has thought about stealing,she has never actually done so.If fear of punishment was her primary reason for not stealing,Jerri would be operating at the ________ level of moral development.

• A)conceptual
• B)conventional
• C)unconventional
• D)preconventional

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Definitions:

Sensory Experiences

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Inherited Traits

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Observable Behavior

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Sigmund Freud

An innovator in neurology from Austria, he introduced psychoanalysis as a method to heal psychopathologies through verbal exchanges between a patient and a psychoanalyst.