Question

According to a study by Turiel (2008), children's ability to tell whether a character in a little story has violated moral rules (such as hitting another person) or social-conventional rules (such as interrupting the teacher in class) develops __________ their ability to understand moral and social-conventional rules in real-life situations.

Answer 1

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.