According to Piaget, adolescents tend to be in what stage of cognitive development?
a. Concrete operations
b. Conventional thought
c. Postconventional thought
d. Formal operational thought
ANS: D
Cognitive thinking culminates in the capacity for abstract thinking. This stage, the period of formal operations, is Piaget's fourth and last stage. Concrete operations usually occur between ages 7 and 11 years. Conventional and postconventional thought refers to Kohlberg's stages of moral development.
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