What is described as critical thinking, conceptual thinking, and introspection through their increased speed, automaticity, and capacity of information processing?

A) Formal operational thinking
B) Classical operational thinking
C) Informal operational thinking
D) None of the above

A
Explanation: A) Adolescents move toward the stage of cognitive thinking known as formal operational thinking. In this stage, they develop critical thinking, conceptual thinking, and introspection through their increased speed, automaticity, and capacity for information processing; they also have more breadth of content knowledge in a variety of domains, increased ability to construct new combinations of knowledge, and a greater range and more spontaneous use of strategies or procedures for applying or obtaining knowledge.