Piaget describes adolescents as being ..... operational because they can do hypothetical-deductive reasoning and consider possibilities, not just realities.

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Piaget describes adolescents as being ____ operational because they can do hypothetical-deductive reasoning and consider possibilities, not just realities.

A	Sensorimotor
B	Preoperational
C	Concrete
D	Formal

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Cognitive theorist Jean Piaget describes adolescence as the stage of life in which the individual’s thoughts start taking more of an abstract form and egocentric thoughts decrease. This allows an individual to think and reason with a wider perspective.

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: -Additionally, while younger children solve problems through trial and error, adolescents demonstrate hypothetical-deductive reasoning, which is developing hypotheses based on what might logically occur. They are able to think about all the possibilities in a situation beforehand, and then test them systematically.

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