According to Gisela Labouvie-Vief, adolescents and many young adults are confined to formal operations and do not possess postformal operational thought because they ____

a. are often limited by their egocentrism and concrete-operational thoughts
b. often lack the ability to coordinate their sensory modalities with motor skills
c. often exaggerate the extent to which logical thinking can be applied to real-life situations
d. are often cognitively unaware of how personal fables and an imaginary audience affects egocentric thought


Answer: C

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