You are babysitting your friend's son Mani, who is 5 years old, and daughter Shivani, who is 8 years old. You give them both 5 small pieces of candy, but Mani's row of candies is more spread out than Shivani's row
Mani begins to pout, and does not seem to understand that both he and Shivani have the same number of candies. This is because Mani is in what Piaget called the ___ stage of development, which is characterized by the belief that ___.
a. preoperational; "there's more than meets the eye"
b. preoperational; "what you see is what you get"
c. operational; "there's more than meets the eye"
d. operational; "what you see is what you get"
Answer: B
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young military recruits who hope to be sent into combat. a 17-year-old boy who drives cautiously. an 18-year-old girl who insists that her boyfriend use a condom during sex. an adolescent who sings in front of the bathroom mirror, knowing that the neighbors must be listening.
At what stage of moral development do standards and values become completely internalized?
a) preoperational b) preconventional c) autonomous moral principles d) conventional role conformity