In This Phase of Moral Development, the Individual Is Strongly

question 281

Multiple Choice

In this phase of moral development, the individual is strongly driven by core principles and personal beliefs. This is the stage where a strong ethics framework is evident and the individual can be willing to break with norms and conventions, even laws, to make decisions consistent with personal principles.

• A) post conventional
• B) conventional
• C) preconventional
• D) personal
• E) social

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Definitions:

Stimulus Generalization

The psychological phenomenon where a response learned for one stimulus is involuntarily elicited by similar stimuli.

Higher-Order Conditioning

A form of learning in which a stimulus is paired with a previously conditioned stimulus, creating the same conditioned response without directly being paired with the unconditioned stimulus.

Response Renewal

The reemergence of a previously extinguished response following a change in context.

Extinction

In psychology, the process by which a conditioned response diminishes and disappears following repeated exposure without reinforcement.