Six-year-old Dylan was taught a card game in which aces are "wild." His friend suggests that they make all the eights wild as well.Dylan insists that this is impossible as only aces can be wild.Piaget would describe Dylan as being in the stage of ________ morality.
A) autonomous
B) immanent
C) conventional
D) heteronomous

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According to Piaget's theory of moral development, the stage of heteronomous morality occurs in young children, around the ages of 4-7 years old. In this stage, children believe that rules are fixed and determined by authority figures, and violating rules leads to punishment. Dylan's insistence that only aces can be wild shows that he is thinking within the boundaries of a fixed rule, and is not yet able to consider the possibility of changing or adding rules. Therefore, Dylan is in the stage of heteronomous morality.

Six-Year-Old Dylan Was Taught a Card Game in Which Aces