If a child is able to focus and to coordinate and imagine a series of events, the nurse would ana-lyze that his or her cognitive developmental level is:
1. Preoperational
2. Concrete operational
3. Formal operational
4. Postoperational
ANS: 2
In the concrete operational level, the child can focus and coordinate and imagine a series of events. 1. In the preoperational stage, the child is unable to relate two classifications at one time and is present-oriented. 3. At the formal operations level, the child can think abstractly and in future orientation. 4. Postoperational is not a stage of cognitive development.
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