Question

A child who says it is not worth stealing candy from a store because if you were caught you would get punished, demonstrates _____________

a. preconventional morality
b. conventional morality
c. postconventional morality
d. autonomous morality

Answer 1

The answer to the question: A child who says it is not worth stealing candy from a store because if you were caught you would get punished, demonstrates: ____, would be, A: preconventional morality.

Step-by-step explanation:

Preconventional morality is one of the six stages of moral reasoning and ethical behavior that was proposed by Lawrence Kohlberg in 1958. Basically Kolhberg made use of Jean Piaget´s theory of behavior and mind development, and its stages, and applied it to the process of moral reasoning in people. He theorized that just like with behavior and cognition, moral reasoning was tied to a series of steps that would evolve into higher ones as moral understanding and learning increased. In preconventional morality, the first of the six stages, a person is still dependent on the consequences of an action to judge if something is right or wrong. The child saying that stealing is not worth it, or wrong, because there will be punishment if he gets caught, is at this stage on the Stages of Moral Development Theory.

Answer 2

The correct answer is A. Preconventional morality

Step-by-step explanation:

According to psychologist Laurence Kohlberg, morality develops in three main phrases that include pre-conventional, conventional and post-conventional morality. In this proposal, pre-conventional morality is the first phase of morality in which morality is formed based on the consequences or effects of an action. In this way, an individual considers as action or behavior as "morally wrong" because he knows it leads to a negative consequence or punishment but not because of social conventions or own criteria.

This type of morality is the one that occurs in a child who says it is wrong stealing because you would get punished, because in this case, the child does not understand social conventions or own principles but only acts based on the consequences of actions and therefore the only reason for not to steal according to the child is to avoid getting punished.