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Jerome and Hani get up early on Saturday morning and decide to make "breakfast in bed" for their mother. While reaching for the bed tray in the back of the hall cabinet, they accidentally break one of their mother’s favorite porcelain dolls. Jerome knows that he’s going to get into "big trouble." Hani tells him not to worry because Mom would understand that it was an accident. In what stage would Jean Piaget categorize the moral reasoning of Jerome and Hani?

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Answer:

Autonomous morality

Explanation:

Piaget suggests two types of moral thinking:

Heterogeneous morality: This morality occurs at the age of 5 to 9 years. This morality is imposed on the children from outside sources like their parents will impose morality on children. The children obey morality as the rules and regulations of others that can not b change.

Autonomous morality: This morality occurs between the age of 9 to 10. It is also called moral relativism. In this morality, children think about there no right or wrong and morality is based on intentions, not on consequences. Moral understanding under this age going for fundamental reorganization.

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