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True or False

1. To acknowledge that policies, practices, rules, and laws are products of social convention and agreement is a quality of Stage 5 moral reasoning.

2. For Stage 3, social norms are not as important as the maintenance of authority and order as the criterion for what it means to be a good boy or girl.

3. To embrace a set of abstract ethical principles in a Level 6 kind of moral reasoning means that actions flowing from people at this stage may appear repugnant to social expectations.

5. Although Stage 4 exemplifies a legalistic orientation, it acknowledges that rules and laws are social conventions that can sometimes be wrong or ineffective and can thus be modified.

5. Altruism or the act of placing another person's interest above one's own is a contradiction to a Level 1 moral reasoning

6. Stage 2 exercises an instrumental orientation, showing a limited interest in the needs of others, only to the point where it might further the individual's own interests

7. In Stage 6 reasoning, upholding personally chosen abstract ethical principles is limited by the absolute nature of legal rules

8. The priority in a Stage 4 moral reasoning is not the "spirit" or logic of the law but the sheer maintenance of societal order.

9. Volunteering for some additional work in class in view of receiving bonus points is an example of Stage 1 reasoning.

10. The main question of a Level 1 reasoning is either "Will I be harmed?" or "Will I benefit?