A nurse is using Jean Piaget's developmental theory to focus on cognitive development. Which area will the nurse assess in this patient?
a. Latency
b. Formal operations
c. Intimacy versus isolation
d. The postconventional level
ANS: B
Jean Piaget's theory includes four stages in sequential order: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operations. Intimacy versus isolation is part of Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory of development. Latency is stage 4 of Freud's five-stage psychosexual theory of development. The postconventional level of reasoning is part of Kohlberg's theory of moral development.
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