Macy really wants the cool new jacket she has just seen in the store, but she does not have enough money to buy it. For a second, she thinks about stealing the jacket but decides that while stealing is not wrong, she might get punished if she is caught. Macy's moral reasoning appears to be at Kohlberg's _____ level.

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Macy's reasoning is based on avoiding punishment rather than understanding the inherent rightness or wrongness of the action, which is characteristic of the preconventional level in Kohlberg's stages of moral development.

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