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Robby cheated on a math test by stealing the answers from the teacher's desk. The teacher realizes that someone stole the answers out of her desk. She asks the other students in her fourth-grade math class if they know who did it. Several of them stand up and announce to the class that they saw Robby take the answers from her desk. According to Kohlberg's theory, at what stage of morality are these children most likely to be functioning

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Social systems morality

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Moral Development

This is simply refered to as the alterations or changes in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in terms of standards of right and wrong. Its intrapersonal dimension is to monitor an indo activities when she or he is not engaged in social interaction and also monitors social interactions and arbitrates conflict

Kohlberg's Theory

There are Six stages of moral development. The development from one stage to another stage is geared by opportunities to take the opinions of others and to experience conflict between one's current stage of moral thinking and the reasoning of someone at a higher stage.

Social systems morality

This is the fourth stage in Kohlberg's theory of moral development. In this stage, moral views or judgments are based on understanding the social order, law, justice, and duty. For example: adolescents may reason that in order for a group or community to work effectively, it needs to be protected by laws that are obeyed to by its member/people.

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