What would be one critique of Piaget's measuring formal operations using the pendulum problem among adolescents in an impoverished traditional culture?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Researchers would argue that if people are tested in real-life situations that they would encounter in their own culture, using materials that they are familiar with, they will be more likely to demonstrate formal operational thinking. Because they are probably not familiar with the apparatus of the pendulum and weights, people in some cultures will score lower than their peers in developed countries.
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