According to Piaget, What Do Adolescents Employ During the Formal

question 45

Multiple Choice

According to Piaget, what do adolescents employ during the formal operational stage of development that helps them reason differently than children in the concrete development stage?

• A)prefrontal cortex
• B)additionally myelinated neurons
• C)propositional thought
• D)trial and error experience from previous years

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