Adolescents Are Able to Approach Career Decision-Making by Using Abstract

question 24

Multiple Choice

Adolescents are able to approach career decision-making by using abstract thinking. Using Jean Piaget's theory, which stage are they likely to be in?

• A) sensorimotor
• B) preoperational
• C) concrete operations
• D) formal operations

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Definitions:

Slot Machines

Gambling devices that create a game of chance for their customers.

Partial Reinforcement

A conditioning schedule in which a reward or punishment is not administered every time the desired response is performed, leading to slower extinction of the response.

Gamblers

People who risk money or something of value on an event with an uncertain outcome in hopes of winning additional resources.

Variable-Interval

In the context of operant conditioning, a schedule of reinforcement where a response is rewarded after an unpredictable amount of time has passed.