List three reasons why you think Kohlberg’s theory (morals of development) is an accurate explanation of moral development.

On the basis of a 20-year longitudinal study in which he first assessed children's moral reasoning at ages 10, 13, and 16, Kohlberg proposed that moral development proceeds through a specific series of stages that are discontin- uous and hierarchical. That is, each new stage reflects a qualitatively different, more adequate way of thinking than the one before it. Kohlberg assessed moral judgment by presenting children with hypothetical moral dilemmas and then questioning them about the issues these dilemmas involved. The reasoning behind the choices of what to do in the dilmenna, rather than the choices themselves is what reflects the quality of their moral reasoning.

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