In the context of Lawrence Kohlberg's six stages of moral reasoning, children in the first stage of reasoning in the preconventional morality level
A) develop their own ideas of what a good person is.
B) evaluate an act according to motive or the person performing it and take circumstances into account.
C) ignore the motives of an act and focus on its consequences.
D) look at an act in terms of the needs it meets and differentiate this value from the act's physical form and consequences.

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In the first stage of Kohlberg's theory, children's moral reasoning is based on obedience and punishment orientation, where they focus on the direct consequences of their actions on themselves, rather than on any societal standards of right or wrong.

In the Context of Lawrence Kohlberg's Six Stages of Moral