6/28/2004
desjardins/honig COGNITION
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Piaget’s Theory
Formal
Operations Stage
•Piaget uses the term formal to represent the adolescent’s focus on the “form” of thought, objects, and
experiences rather than on the exact content.
•Adolescents have the ability to see new kinds of logical relationships between classes or between and among several different properties.
•Main feature - children can enter into possibilities beyond the world of reality and use hypothetical- deductive reasoning.