In Kohlberg’s (1968) study of moral development, moral reasoning is categorized into distinct levels and stages. Consider a scenario where an industrial engineer leaks confidential corporate documents to expose that their employer is illegally dumping carcinogenic chemicals into a municipal water supply.
Describe the two stages of post-conventional moral reasoning that an individual might use to justify the engineer's whistle-blowing actions.
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.