What is the key ability that defines Piaget's formal operational stage?
Explanation
This question assesses the defining characteristic of Piaget's final stage of cognitive development.
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What is the definition of development as it pertains to long-term personal changes?
What are the two ways that developmental trends are described as varying?
According to a government survey cited in the text, what is the average number of colds children get per year?
What is the primary characteristic of puberty?
In Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, what is the major achievement of the sensorimotor stage?
Which stage of Piaget's theory is characterized by a child's ability to represent ideas more flexibly and logically, but still operating primarily on concrete objects and events?
What are reversibility and decentration, as described in Piaget's concrete operational stage?
According to Erik Erikson's theory, what is the psychosocial crisis faced by children in the elementary school years, from approximately age 6 to 12?
What is the central conflict during Erikson's psychosocial crisis of adolescence, known as identity vs. role confusion?
In Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs, what is the relationship between deficit needs and being needs?
Which of the following are all categorized as 'deficit needs' in Maslow's hierarchy?
What is the primary focus of Kohlberg's 'morality of justice'?
In Kohlberg's stages of moral development, what defines the 'ethics of obedience and punishment' (Stage 1)?
Which level of Kohlberg's moral development includes the stages of 'peer opinion' and 'law and order'?
What is the central idea of Carol Gilligan's 'morality of care'?
In Gilligan's model, what defines the 'survival orientation' (Position 1)?
What is the key characteristic of Gilligan's 'integrated care' (Position 3)?
What is the goal of character education programs as described in the chapter?
Which of the following is NOT listed as one of Erikson's eight psychosocial crises?
During which approximate age range does Erikson's crisis of 'Initiative and guilt' occur?
According to Abraham Maslow, what is 'self-actualization'?
What does a child in Kohlberg's Stage 2, the 'ethics of market exchange,' consider to be a morally 'good' action?
What is the key limitation of Kohlberg's Stage 5, the 'ethics of social contract,' that leads some individuals toward Stage 6?
According to the chapter, what is the main difference in how 'staircase' and 'kaleidoscope' models view development?
In the context of physical development, which statement accurately reflects the trends in height and weight during early teenage years?
What is 'conservation' in Piaget's theory?
What is the final psychosocial crisis in Erikson's theory, characteristic of the final years of life?
According to Maslow's hierarchy, which of these is an example of a 'being need'?
In Kohlberg's postconventional level, what is the basis for a morally good action in Stage 6, the 'ethics of self-chosen, universal principles'?
What is the defining characteristic of Gilligan's 'conventional care' (Position 2)?
How many psychosocial crises did Erik Erikson propose in his theory of social development?
What are the four key features of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?
According to the health information presented, deaths in childhood from disease are how many times higher for poor vs non-poor children?
What does Piaget's concept of 'assimilation' involve?
In the context of moral development, what is a 'morality of care' primarily about?
Which theorist developed a theory of social development that relies on a series of eight psychosocial crises?
What is the primary developmental task during Erikson's 'autonomy vs. shame' crisis?
In Maslow's theory, how do being needs differ from deficit needs once they are met?
What type of moral reasoning is characteristic of Kohlberg's Stage 4, 'the ethics of law and order'?
Why do teachers who provide authentic service learning opportunities for students support precursors to Erikson's adult crisis of generativity?
What is cognitive equilibrium according to Jean Piaget?
What social effect of puberty on some girls in math and science is mentioned in the chapter?
What is the primary difference between social conventions and moral beliefs, as explained in the chapter?
How do educational psychologists, as described in the chapter, tend to emphasize explanations of development when addressing educators?
In Piaget's theory, what allows a child in the concrete operational stage to correctly state that a squished ball of clay has the same amount of clay as before?
What is the primary way that Erikson's theory of psychosocial crises is applicable to students of all ages in a classroom setting?
Why is Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs considered only 'loosely developmental' compared to the theories of Piaget and Erikson?
According to the chapter, what risk does a teacher run by putting too much emphasis on perfection when trying to foster a sense of industry in students?
What is the primary message of the chapter's concluding section, 'Understanding “the typical student” versus understanding students'?