Question

Candice is presented with a moral dilemma. She responds by saying that the person in the dilemma should choose a course of action that will ensure that people will not think badly of that person. Candice’s response reflects Lawrence Kohlberg’s _____ reasoning level of moral development.

a. preconventional
b. conventional
c. autonomous
d. moral
e. postconventional

Answer 1

b. conventional

Step-by-step explanation:

Lawrence Kohlberg has given three stages or levels of moral development and each stage has two distinct sub-stages.

1. Pre-conventional stage.

2. Conventional stage.

3. Post-conventional stage.

Conventional level: This level of moral reasoning is the second stage of development and is representative of adults and adolescents. At the conventional level, a person's sense of ethics or morality is tied to societal and personal relationships. Basically, in this stage, the morality of an individual's actions is being judged by societal expectations.