One Reason That Adolescents and Adults Do Not Always Engage

question 120

Multiple Choice

One reason that adolescents and adults do not always engage in formal operational thinking is that they

• A) lack educational experiences that foster abstract reasoning.
• B) may be capable of it, but fall back on less demanding intuitive judgments.
• C) lack the motivation for higher-level thinking and problem solving.
• D) prefer to make trial-and-error judgments.

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