Discussion
In response to the question, "Is it alright to steal the chocolate from the freezer in absence of your parents ?" 4-year-old Meera replied, "It will be wrong because doing so can cause punishment from the parent." Meera's moral reasoning depicts which stage of Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development ?
Answer: C
Meera's reasoning belongs to the Pre-conventional level.
At Kohlberg's pre-conventional level, an action is judged by its consequences for the child. In the first stage, obedience and punishment orientation, something is wrong because it brings punishment, which is exactly Meera's reason: stealing is wrong 'because doing so can cause punishment'.
At the conventional level the child reasons from approval of others and from rules and law, and at the post-conventional level from social contracts and universal principles. 'Formal conventional' is not a level in Kohlberg's theory. A four-year-old would also be expected to reason at the pre-conventional level.
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