Could you give me an example of the excerpt? Thanks!
Answer: At about the same time as.
In his study, Turiel interviewed children using hypothetical situations that resembled the types of struggles raised by the real-life events. The way that these children reasoned was very similar across real and hypothetical moral issues. Thus, we can say that children's ability to tell whether a character in a story has violated moral rules develops at about the same time as their ability to understand them in real life.
