Question

Justin is 19 years old. in the past, he drove at an abnormally high speed if no police cars were in sight. now he believes it is in everybody's best interests to obey speed limits and other traffic rules. according to kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning, this represents ____ morality.

Answer 1

This represents conventional morality to Kohlberg's stages of development. In this theory Lawrence Kohlberg described three phases of moral development: 1. pre-conventional; 2. conventional; 3. post-conventional. The conventional stage is also called "conformist" stage. At this stage, a person accepts social and legal norms and acts accordance whit them.