Which of the following statements about moral development is true?
A) In middle childhood, children typically say truth telling is always good and lying is always bad.
B) In middle childhood, children primarily rely on reinforcement to acquire morally relevant behaviors.
C) By middle childhood, children have had time to internalize rules for good conduct, which leads them to become considerably more independent and trustworthy.
D) While school-age children think about right and wrong, they usually copy their morality from others.
C
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Carol Gilligan would probably say that choices about which of the following aspects of life are most likely to advance moral thinking?
politics child rearing financial matters religion
When you were in high school, your friends had "mosquito" ring tones on their cell phones. Mosquito tones are very high-pitched (17kHz) tones. What did your 45-year-old teachers think of it?
a. Some of the teachers thought that there was an invasion of mosquitoes at your school. b. Most the time the ring tones were very quiet and the teachers seemed to like them. c. They found the high-pitched noise to be very irritating. d. Most never heard it.