According to Lawrence Kohlberg, people's responses to moral dilemma scenarios reveal the stage of __________ development they have attained and yield information about their general level of __________ development.

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Kohlberg's theory of moral development examines the process of the evolving ideas about justice that change in response to increasing cognitive development. As one thinks about the world differently (i.e., symbolic functioning, concrete logic, abstract logical reasoning), the way that they consider justice changes appropriately.

According to Lawrence Kohlberg, People's Responses to Moral Dilemma Scenarios