How does adolescent thinking change in Piaget's stage of formal operational thought?
What will be an ideal response?
Formal-operational thought is more abstract than concrete-operational thought. Adolescents are no longer limited to actual, concrete experiences as anchors for their thoughts. They can imagine hypothetical situations or strictly abstract propositions and try to reason logically about them. This ability to think in an abstract way enables the adolescent to be better at verbal problem solving and to think about thinking itself. Formal operational thought is full of idealism and possibilities. At the same time that adolescents think more abstractly and idealistically, they also think more logically and test solutions systematically.
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