Rather, certain innate possibilities, such as the potential for various types of moral reasoning, that lay within the child are assembled in a malleable configuration when the environment for such growth is provided. ... In the example of moral reasoning, the child, recalling memories from each stage in his or her life, attempts to create a sensible "pattern" from these experiences. ... This level of thinking coincides nicely with the "needs of others" orientation, which is the second stage in Eisenberg's levels of prosocial reasoning. ... While it is helpful to cla...

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