Adults Show Formal Operational Thinking

question 175

Multiple Choice

Adults show formal operational thinking:

• A) rarely.
• B) usually.
• C) when they reason about their own lives, but not on Piaget's scientific tests.
• D) when they reason on Piaget's scientific tests, but not in their own lives.

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Definitions:

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