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Question 5

An educational psychologist wants to assess moral reasoning in a traditional, collectivist community in rural Kenya. They decide to use Kohlberg’s original clinical interview method and the Heinz dilemma to categorize the participants' stages of moral development.

Explain why this research design might be criticized as ethnocentric, making reference to Kohlberg's (1968) original study of moral development.

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Moral development Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Moral development

22 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Moral development, covering Kohlberg (1968): Stages of moral development and Lee et al. (1997): Evaluations of lying and truth-telling. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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