Shelby's Best Friend Didn't Run Up to Play with Her

question 18

Multiple Choice

Shelby's best friend didn't run up to play with her at recess and sat alone at a table.Shelby thought, "She's probably still feeling sick." This is an example of:

• A)Shelby's ability to reframe a potentially stressful situation.
• B)Shelby's state of denial.
• C)Shelby's inability to cope with stress.
• D)Shelby's emotional incompetence.

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Definitions:

Formal Operational Thinking

The stage in cognitive development (typically occurring from age 12 onwards) where individuals develop the ability to think abstractly, logically, and systematically.

Combination-of-Liquids Task

A task used in developmental psychology to assess a child's understanding of conservation concepts, involving the mixing of different volumes or colors of liquids.

Formal Operational

The stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development where individuals develop the ability to think abstractly, reason logically, and understand hypothetical situations.

Preoperational

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, occurring from approximately 2 to 7 years of age, characterized by symbolic thought but not yet capable of logical operations.