How Did Jean Piaget Describe the Developmental Stage During Which

question 73

Multiple Choice

How did Jean Piaget describe the developmental stage during which people acquire the ability to think abstractly?

• A)concrete operational stage
• B)preoperational stage
• C)formal operational stage
• D)sensorimotor stage

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Definitions:

Top-down Processing

Cognitive processing that begins with thoughts or higher-level functions before receiving sensory input.

Monocular Depth Cues

Visual information that allows one eye to perceive depth and distance, such as texture gradient, interposition, and linear perspective.

Bottom-up

An approach to processing information that starts with small, individual elements or details and integrates them to comprehend the whole.

Opponent-process Theory

A psychological and neurological model that explains a wide range of behaviors, including color vision, by proposing that certain pairs of colors are processed by mechanisms that work in opposition to each other.