How does formal operational thinking allow adolescents to become good at arguing or debating with their parents? Use your own example of what an adolescent might say to a parent who told her child to be home by midnight after the prom.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Because adolescents have a more sophisticated way of thinking, they are able to come up with many arguments to support a position. For example, hypothetical-deductive thinking allows them to consider a number of possibilities, so they might argue that anything they could do after curfew that would get them in trouble they could easily do before the curfew. They might explain that they have made good decisions in the past and that they could agree to call home if there is a problem. They might even use guilt by arguing that not allowing them to stay out means parents don't trust them.
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