Results from Longitudinal Studies of Moral Judgment Show Most Clearly

question 48

Multiple Choice

Results from longitudinal studies of moral judgment show most clearly that _______.

• A) moral development does not occur in the clear stages that Kohlberg describes
• B) children and adolescents shift from one stage of moral reasoning to another, following the sequence described by Kohlberg
• C) average scores on moral development reasoning move upward in stages, but individuals move up and down quite frequently
• D) stage-like development of moral reasoning occurs only among children and adolescents growing up in western cultures

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Definitions:

Eysenck's Model

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Goodness Of Fit Model

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Novel Situations

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