The nurse is explaining the preconventional stage of moral development to a group of nursing students. What characterizes this stage?
a. Children in this stage focus on following the rules.
b. Children in this stage live up to social expectations and roles.
c. Children in this stage have a concrete sense of justice and fairness.
d. Children in this stage have little, if any, concern for why something is wrong.
ANS: D
Young children's development of moral judgment is at the most basic level in the preconventional stage. They have little, if any, concern for why something is wrong. Following the rules, living up to social expectations, and having a concrete sense of justice and fairness are characteristics in the conventional stage.
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