Question

Donnie, age 16, is able to understand that a poem has another, less literal meaning and that the words are actually referring to life choices instead of paths in a forest. Donnie is in Piaget's _____ stage of cognitive development.

Answer 1

Full question:

Donnie, age 16, is able to understand that a poem has another, less literal meaning and that the words are actually referring to life choices instead of paths in a forest. Donnie is in Piaget's _____ stage of cognitive development.

A. Sensorimotor thought

B. Preoperational thought

C. Concrete operational thought

D. Formal operational thought

Answer:

Donnie is in Piaget's Formal operational thought stage of cognitive development.

Explanation:

As adolescents start this formal operational stage, they earn the capacity to imagine abstractly by planning opinions in their head, without any dependency on concrete manipulation. Teens start to create more ethical, thoughtful, moral, cultural, and administrative issues that need technical and obscure thinking.

Drive to apply deductive logic or rationalizing from a common principle to particular information. The capacity for considering obscure concepts and circumstances is the key endorsement of the formal operational stage of cognitive development.