Match the Definition to the Term

question 50

Multiple Choice

Match the definition to the term.
-formal operations stage

• A)Piaget's earliest stage of development,from birth to 2 years of age,in which a child's intelligence involves sensory and motor activities and has nothing to do with abstract thought in the adult sense
• B)Piaget's fourth stage of development,typically beginning around age 11 or 12 and characterized by the emergence of experimental or inductive reasoning,and analyzing problems systematically
• C)Piaget's second stage of development,between ages 2 and 7,in which children have developed an appreciation of object constancy but are still unable to under-stand the fact that certain properties of objects remain the same regardless of their appearance
• D)Piaget's third stage of development,in which children around the age of 7 gain an appreciation of abstract concepts such as quantity and volume,which are con-served even as substances undergo changes in appearance

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Definitions:

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