All of the Following Are True of Piaget's Formal Operational

question 104

Multiple Choice

All of the following are true of Piaget's formal operational stage, except that

• A)it typically occurs between 11 and 16 years of age.
• B)it is the final stage of thought.
• C)it can be qualitatively improved upon once it is acquired.
• D)it is the stage when children can think in the abstract.

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Definitions:

Pessimistic Explanatory Style

A tendency to explain negative events in a way that attributes them to stable, internal, and global causes.

Interpret Bad Events

The cognitive process of explaining and assigning meaning to negative occurrences or adversity.

Big Five Personality Traits

A theoretical model of personality that includes five broad dimensions: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, structuring human personality.

Sensation-Seeking

The trait of seeking varied, novel, complex, and intense sensations and experiences, and the willingness to take physical, social, legal, and financial risks for the sake of such experiences.