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premoral stage

1. in Jean Piaget’s theory of moral development, the stage at which young children (under the age of 5) are unaware of rules as cooperative agreements; that is, they are unable to distinguish right from wrong. Compare autonomous stage; heteronomous stage.

2. the stage that precedes the preconventional level in Kohlberg’s theory of moral development and corresponds to infancy (birth to roughly 18 months).

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