A child decides to steal a small item from a neighborhood store in order to be accepted into the Hawk Club. The child reasons that the stealing behavior is acceptable because it is what his friends expect of him.
According to Kohlberg, this child is operating at the _____ level.

A. preconventional
B. postconventional
C. universal ethical
D. conventional

Respuesta :

Answer:

conventional level:

Explanation:

conventional level:

The conventional level demonstrate moral judgement and reasoning capabilities in any individual. It comes at the second-placed in Kohlberg's stages of development. There is a total number of 6 different stages of development.

first level of development is a pre-conventional level where children of age till 9 comes and disobey or obey the regulation formulated by their role models.

second level is a conventional stage. In this stage, children try to develop their own moral codes by following key steps of their role models