According to Piaget, the adolescent is in the fourth stage of cognitive development, or period of:
a. Formal operations. c. Conventional thought.
b. Concrete operations. d. Postconventional thought.
ANS: A
Cognitive thinking culminates with capacity for abstract thinking. This stage, the period of formal operations, is Piaget's fourth and last stage. The concrete operations stage usually develops between ages 7 and 11 years. Conventional and postconventional thought refer to Kohlberg's stages of moral development.
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