Jean Piaget's cognitive developmental theory focuses on four stages of development, including
a. Formal operations.
b. Intimacy versus isolation.
c. Latency.
d. The postconventional level.
ANS: A
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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