To see whether a child has reached the stage of formal operations, what might a psychologist test?

a. How the child deals with hypothetical and abstract questions
b. Whether the child understands that objects still exist when out of sight
c. Whether the child understands conservation of number and mass
d. How well the child can describe what an object would look like from another angle


a

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