AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Kohlberg suggested that people move through these stages in a fixed order, and that moral understanding is linked to cognitive development. The three levels of moral reasoning include preconventional, conventional, and postconventional.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cognitive in nature, Kohlberg’s theory focuses on the thinking process that occurs when one decides whether a behaviour is right or wrong. Thus, the theoretical emphasis is on how one decides to respond to a moral dilemma, not what one decides or what one actually does.

Detailed explanation-3: -Kohlberg’s six stages were grouped into three levels: pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Kohlberg, most people will reach the highest stage of moral development.