A concrete operational thinker is able to do all of the following except

A) decenter.
B) have abstract thought.
C) reversibility of mental operations.
D) understand dynamic transformations.


B) have abstract thought. A limitation of concrete operational thought is that children's use of mental operations is still closely tied to concrete materials, contexts, and situations. It becomes abstract in adolescence during formal operations, the final stage of cognitive development.

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