________ is Piaget's formal operational concept that adolescents have the cognitive ability to develop hypotheses about ways to solve problems and deduce their implications.

A. Idealistic scenario reasoning
B. Convergent thinking
C. Hypothetical-deductive reasoning
D. Divergent thinking


Answer: C

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