Nick decides to join Boy Scouts. He likes the structure scouts provide of being told how to act and the way that people give him positive reinforcement for being a Boy Scout. He wants others to see him as a good person, especially his parents and teachers. Which stage in Kohlberg's theory is Nick in?

A. conventional moral reasoning
B. preconventional moral reasoning
C. autonomous morality
D. heteronomousmorality


Answer: A

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