Kagen cheated on a biology test. She got an A, but she felt miserable afterward. How does Lawrence Kohlberg's assumption that moral reasoning leads to moral behavior relate to cheating?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Research has found that Kohlberg's assumption that moral reasoning leads to moral behavior tends to hold at the higher moral stages (stages 5 and 6).
2. However, people who reason at stages 3 or 4 do not always behave consistently with their moral views, and might justify cheating because "other people are doing it and getting away with it," which is a stage 1 to 2 level rationale.
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a. for males, a greater percentage of each chromosome is devoted to spatial ability. b. males inherit math abilities from both parents, whereas females inherit math abilities from just the mother. c. some abilities may be associated with recessive traits, carried on the X chromosome. d. the chromosomes are more likely to undergo mutation in males than in females.
People who want to hold correct attitudes will often engage in central route processing. Doing so means that they
a. will always end up with a valid attitude. b. will avoid biased information processing. c. may fall prey to overcorrection. d. will become more liberal in their thinking.
In any regulatory system, the __________ is the optimum value of the system variable, the __________ monitors the value of the system variable, and the __________ restores the system variable to its optimum value when it deviates from that value.
a. set point; correctional mechanism; detector b. detector; set point; correctional mechanism c. detector; correctional mechanism; set point d. set point; detector; correctional mechanism e. correlational mechanism; set point; detector
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
a. incipient cooperation c. heteronomous b. autonomous cooperation d. homonomous