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believed that moral development, like cognitive development, follows a series of stages.
•To develop this theory, he posed moral dilemmas to people of all ages, and then he analyzed their answers to find evidence of their particular stage of moral development.
•one of his best-known moral dilemmas, commonly known as the Heinz dilemma
•he reviewed people’s responses and placed them in different stages of moral reasoning
•According to his theory , an individual progresses from the capacity for pre-conventional morality (before age 9) to the capacity for conventional morality (early adolescence), and toward attaining post-conventional morality (once formal operational thought is attained), which only a few fully achieve
Who is Kohlberg