AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Heinz dilemma is a frequently used example in many ethics and morality classes. One well-known version of the dilemma, used in Lawrence Kohlberg’s stages of moral development, is stated as follows: A woman was on her deathbed. There was one drug that the doctors said would save her.

Detailed explanation-2: -a story about an ethical dilemma faced by a character named Heinz that was used by Lawrence Kohlberg to assess the moral reasoning skills of those he asked to respond to it. Having exhausted every other possibility, Heinz must decide whether to steal an expensive drug that offers the only hope of saving his dying wife.

Detailed explanation-3: -He believed that there are six stages of Moral development which could be more generally classified into three levels. They are the Pre-conventional stage, the Conventional Stage, and the Post-conventional stage. To explain this, Lawrence Kohlberg quoted an example popularly called as Heinz’s Dilemma.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Heinz Dilemma refers to a story used by Kohlberg in his study on moral development about a man who steals drugs to help his wife who is dying of cancer. By asking how people would react to this dilemma, Kohlberg developed his stages of moral development which correspond more or less to peoples’ age groups.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Heinz dilemma is a fictitious scenario in which a man, Heinz, has an ill wife who needs a rather expensive medicine to survive. Heinz steals the medicine, and readers are asked whether he should have or not and why. This was developed by Lawrence Kohlberg and was one of many of his moral dilemmas.