Piaget called the reasoning that characterizes adolescence
formal operational thought.
the game of thinking.
metacognition.
concrete operational thinking.
Question 2When Piaget and Inhelder asked children of different ages to balance a scale using several different weights, they found that
very young children tended to use logical deduction.
7-year-old children tended to use spatial relationships.
by age 10, children tended to use trial-and-error strategies.
adolescents failed to see the complexities of the problem.
Question 3Ryan's thinking is no longer restricted to personal experience as it was earlier in his life. Ryan is in the stage of
sensorimotor thought.
preoperational thought.
concrete operational thought.
formal operational thought.
Question 4Recent research has indicated that many adolescents
feel increasingly invincible over time.
feel situationally invincible.
are pressured to feel invincible.
do not feel invincible.
Question 5The imaginary audience includes not only an adolescent's personal experiences but also
some aspect of their invincibility fable.
their perceptions about their own egocentrism.
their own sense of how their actions affect others.
their perceived experiences of other people's imaginary audiences.
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