Kohlberg’s theory is about our moral development; showing us the different stages of rational thinking we can end up on. How either over time or in certain situations our thought process goes bizarre. These levels we can end up on are: Pre-conventional, conventional, and postconventional. Each of these levels are two different stages, leaving us with six different stages.
To help support his theory Kohlberg would review people’s responses towards a specific situation and place them in different stages based on their response. Though Kohlberg also believed that our responses would differ according to our age. “According to Kohlberg, an individual progresses from the capacity for pre-conventional morality (before age