According to Jean Piaget, what type of thinking typically emerges between the ages of 11 and 15?
Formal operational
Concrete operational
Postconventional
Passive
Active
The Correct Answer is A
A. Formal operational: Piaget’s formal operational stage (roughly 11+) is when abstract, hypothetical, and deductive reasoning emerges.
B. Concrete operational: Concrete operational (7-11) enables logical thinking about concrete situations but not full abstract/hypothetical thought.
C. Postconventional: Postconventional is a stage in Kohlberg’s moral development, not a Piagetian cognitive stage.
D. Passive: “Passive” is not a Piagetian stage and doesn’t describe the emergence of abstract reasoning.
E. Active: “Active” is not a standard Piagetian stage label; Piaget contrasts continuity/discontinuity and stage names.
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Correct Answer is D
Explanation
A. A maternal age greater than 35:Advanced maternal age is a risk factor for chromosomal abnormalities (e.g., nondisjunction) but is not itself an external teratogenic agent.
B. A genetic mutation during meiosis:A meiotic error is a genetic cause of birth defects (endogenous), not a teratogen (which is an external environmental agent).
C. Neonatal exposure to the flu:Exposure after birth (neonatal) is not a prenatal teratogen affecting embryonic/fetal development.
D. The mother having chicken pox during pregnancy:maternal infection with varicella during pregnancy can act as a teratogen (congenital varicella syndrome) and cause fetal anomalies - infections are classic teratogens.
E. The mother having an amniocentesis:Amniocentesis is an invasive diagnostic procedure that carries some risk (e.g., miscarriage) but is not classified as a teratogenic agent in the same sense as drugs/infections/radiation.
Correct Answer is B
Explanation
A. High achievement motivation:A large ideal-real gap may motivate some but more commonly undermines confidence; high achievement motivation is not the typical direct result.
B. Low self-esteem:a big discrepancy between the ideal self and real self typically produces feelings of inadequacy and lower self-esteem (Higgins’ self-discrepancy theory).
C. Learned helplessness:Learned helplessness arises from repeated uncontrollable failure; while possible, the immediate effect of an ideal-real gap is more directly low self-esteem.
D. Identity foreclosure:Foreclosure concerns premature commitment without exploration, unrelated to self-discrepancy per se.
E. Recursive thought:Recursive thought (reflecting on one’s own thinking) is a cognitive process and not the standard consequence of an ideal-real self gap.
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