Question

Question 2 Eddie’s neighbor Marjorie steals a laptop computer from another student in their dorm and makes Eddie promise not to tell on her. After campus police come to the dorm and question him, Eddie decides to tell them that Marjorie stole the laptop, because Eddie knows that Marjorie broke the law. According to Kohlberg, Eddie is exhibiting ________ moral reasoning. preconventional postconventional conventional unconventional

Answer 1

Conventional — Eddie is reasoning from a law-and-order / rule-following perspective (Kohlberg’s conventional level).