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  • Title: Role-taking, moral development, and mental retardation.
    Author: Perry JE, Krebs D.
    Journal: J Genet Psychol; 1980 Mar; 136(1st Half):95-108. PubMed ID: 7365477.
    Abstract:
    Role-taking ability and level of moral development were measured in three groups of boys and girls including 16 moderately retarded adolescents (mean chronological age 15; mean mental age 9), 16 nonretarded adolescents matched for chronological age, and 16 nonretarded children matched for mental age. The mentally retarded adolescents scored significantly lower on role-taking ability and moral development than the adolescents matched for chronological age. They did not differ from children of their same mental age in role-taking ability; and they tended to score lower in moral development. The results supplied qualified support for Kohlberg's theory of moral development.
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