A child life specialist caring for children in the pediatric ward plays a game with a young patient who is enjoying the game, but makes up the rules as she goes along. This behavior is characteristic of what stage of moral development?

A. sensorimotor stage
B. preoperational stage
C. concrete operational stage
D. formal operational stage
E. post-operational stage

B. preoperational stage

The child in the preoperational stage of moral development views the world from his or her own perspective. For example, when playing a game, the child is not particularly concerned with the rules of play, rather the focus is on fun, not rules.

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