According to follow-ups of Inhelder and Piaget’s original work, when are adolescents and adults most consistently observed to engage in formal operational thinking?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: People engage in formal operational reasoning most often when given problems in an area of expertise or extensive training.

Psychology

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a. fitness b. malleability c. adaptation d. exclusivity

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Learning about principles that govern objects does not help us learn about ourselves

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Karl Lashley suggested that a. location of a lesion was the best predictor of learned performance

b. the size of a lesion was the best predictor of learned performance. c. size and location of a lesion were equally correlated with learned performance. d. neither the size nor the location of a lesion was correlated with learned performance.

Psychology

Which of the following is one of the key stress hormones released by the adrenal glands?

a. Cortisol b. Melatonin c. Insulin d. Oxytocin

Psychology