Your best friend Jessica recently participated in a psychological study.When you ask her how it went,she says,"It was easy.I was just asked what I thought about some Heinz guy who stole drugs for a living." Jessica was in a study of moral development based on the methods of

A) Sandra Bem.
B) Carol Gilligan.
C) Walter Mischel.
D) Lawrence Kohlberg.

The study that Jessica participated in involved questions about moral dilemmas, which is a hallmark of Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development. Kohlberg's theory posits that individuals progress through six stages of moral development, each building upon the previous one in terms of the individual's level of complexity in moral reasoning. The study likely presented Jessica with a scenario based on Kohlberg's famous "Heinz Dilemma," in which Heinz must decide whether to steal a drug he cannot afford to save his dying wife's life. Jessica's responses would have been coded according to which stage of moral development she exhibited, based on the rationale she gave for her answers.