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Unit 9 · Human Development & Interventions Psychology · Dec 2020/June 2021 · Nov 2021

"When individuals believe that moral choices are not dependent on close ties to others and that rules must be enforced in the same manner for everyone and each person should uphold them". The following statement is characteristic of which stage of Moral Development according to Kohlberg?

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Correct answer: C. Social order maintaining orientation

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Uniform rules applied to everyone and the duty to uphold them is Kohlberg's Stage 4, the social-order-maintaining (law and order) orientation.

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