Learn about preconventional morality, Kohlberg's preconventional stages of morality, see how preconventional moral reasoning works, and view examples.
Most children adhere to this definition of morality until the age of 8 or 9 years old. After this, the progress to the conventional morality stage. This coincides with their level of cognitive development which becomes progressively more advanced. As children grow and their brain matures, so doe...
guided by the consequences of the action and the benefit awarded to him or herself. At this level of development, a child may not take a piece of candy from another because he or she is afraid of being punished opposed to being guided by feelings of morality or an understanding of the ...