A Child Life Specialist Caring for Children in the Pediatric

question 10

Multiple Choice

A child life specialist caring for children in the pediatric ward plays a game with a young patient who is enjoying the game, but makes up the rules as she goes along. This behavior is characteristic of what stage of moral development?

• A) sensorimotor stage
• B) preoperational stage
• C) concrete operational stage
• D) formal operational stage
• E) post-operational stage

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