A nurse is caring for a child who wants his parents to buy him a cat when he gets better. The parents refuse because they are both allergic to cat hair
The child states, "That's not fair. I want a cat." The nurse recognizes that the child is in which stage of Lawrence Kohlberg's moral development theory?
1. Conventional morality
2. Preoperational morality
3. Preconventional morality
4. Postconventional morality
ANS: 3
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