Question

Four-year-old Kyle insists on playing the same card game and always in the same manner. He becomes very upset if someone suggests that they play cards in a different way. Kyle most likely is in Piaget's __________ stage of morality development.

Answer 1

Heteronomous

Step-by-step explanation:

In Piaget's theory, there are three stages of moral development; in the first stage, the child is concerned with perfecting motor and social skills and does not recognize morality, in the second stage , which is the heteronomous stage, the child displays unquestioning respect for rules and submission to authority, while in the last stage the child understands that rules are capricious and can be changed with group consensus with the idea that when an action is performed, the intentions of the person who performed it should be considered in judging its morality. Kyle is in the heteronomous stage because his mindset is subject to an external rule or standard.