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According to kohlberg's levels of moral development, a child who does not push another child on the playground for fear of being punished by his mother is in what stage of moral development?

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It is in stay 1 of the preconventional level. Kohlberg was a psychologist who studied human moral development over time. He theorized various levels and stages of moral development in accordance with cognitive development. At the preconventional level, the moral concepts are followed according to the possible obtaining of rewards or the avoidance of punishments. That is, they have not internalized.

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