The Expression to "Bite Your Tongue" in Order to Keep

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True/False

The expression to "bite your tongue" in order to keep from putting your "foot in your mouth" is characterized by a cognitive skill that emerges in early adulthood known as response inhibition.

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Definitions:

Autonomous Moral Principles

Principles of right action that individuals adopt and follow voluntarily and independently, often based on an internal sense of justice and ethics.

Conventional Role

A socially accepted behavior pattern or responsibility expected from a person in a specific position or status in society.

Preconventional Morality

First level of Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning in which control is external and rules are obeyed in order to gain rewards or avoid punishment or out of self-interest.

Authoritarian Morality

A set of moral principles that emphasizes obedience to authority, often without questioning the moral correctness of the authority's decrees.