Aashna does good because she would like to be seen as good by other people . At which stage of moral development is she according to Lawrence Kohlberg?

Kohlberg's theory of moral development Kohlberg (1966) made a significant contribution in complementing and supplementing Piaget's theory of moral development. Like Piaget, he, too, stresses that moral development is a cognitive-developmental process and is based on moral (judgement, that is, on the reasoning a child makes.

Kohlberg's stages of moral development:

There can be six stages of moral development in such a way that the development of a higher stage logically depends on the development of the preceding stage. Each stage reveals a different kind of motivation for acting morally.
Level I. Pre-conventional Level -.
- Stage (i): Punishment and obedience orientation: The physical consequences of actions determine their goodness-or badness. Avoidance of punishment and deference to power are valued in their own right and not in terms of respect for an underlying moral order.
  - Typical response: I will not disobey my parents, because I will be punished by them.
- Stage (ii): The instrument relativist orientation Right action is one that instrumentally satisfies one's needs and occasionally the needs of others. Human relations are considered those of a marketplace. Elements of fairness of reciprocity and of equal sharing are present but they are always interpreted in terms of expediency. :
  - If you help me, maybe I will help you sometimes.
Level II. Conventional Level -
- Stage (i): Good boy-nice girl orientation Behaviour at this stage is judged by intention - "he\she means well". The intention or will becomes important. One earns the approval of others by becoming nice or good. One acts not with the intention of pleasing others but with the motive of being good so that others appreciate. So one conforms to socially desirable behavior.
  - Aashana is doing good because she would like to be seen as good by others.
- Stage (ii): The law and order orientation Here the orientation is towards maintaining the given social order - its rules and regulations and the authority. As such right behaviour consists of doing one's duty and showing respect for the established lawful authority for its own sake. It is conventional morality.
Level.III Post-conventional Level-
Stage (i): The social contract; legalistic orientation / Generally with utilitarian overtones, right actions tend to be defined in terms of the general rights of the individuals, and standards which have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
Stage (ii): The universal ethical principle orientation Right is defined by the conscience in accordance with self-chosen ethical principles appealing to logical comprehensiveness, universality and consistency. These principles are abstract and ethical, the golden rule, the categorical imperative, unlike the ten commandments. Such rules are universal principles of justice, the reciprocity and equality of human rights, and respect for the dignity of human beings as individual persons.

Thus, it infers that Aashna does good because she would like to be seen as good by other people. She is at the Conventional stage of moral development according to Lawrence Kohlberg.