AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In contrast to the elementary school child, an adolescent who has developed formal operational thought can: think about possible outcomes.

Detailed explanation-2: -The formal operational stage begins at approximately age twelve and lasts into adulthood. As adolescents enter this stage, they gain the ability to think in an abstract manner by manipulating ideas in their head, without any dependence on concrete manipulation (Inhelder & Piaget, 1958).

Detailed explanation-3: -The formal operational stage is characterized by the ability to formulatehypotheses and systematically test them to arrive at an answer to a problem. The individual in the formal stage is also able to think abstractly and tounderstand the form or structure of a mathematical problem.

Detailed explanation-4: -The formal operational stage (12+ years) In this final stage of cognitive development, children learn more sophisticated rules of logic. They then use these rules to understand how abstract concepts work and to solve problems. The child can analyze their environment and make deductions.

Detailed explanation-5: -In another experiment on formal operational thought, Piaget asked children to imagine where they would want to place a third eye if they had one. 3 Younger children said that they would put the imagined third eye in the middle of their forehead.