What is Piaget's formal operational stage? What ages does it occur?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: A beginning of abstract, hypothetical, and deductive reasoning. Children begin to experiment with problems and begin to understand metaphors. It occurs at ages 11/12 to 15 and lasts through adulthood.
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Olivia has been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID). She has 17 different "alters," which are strikingly different from her host personality. Some of her alters are not full personalities, but only fragments and memories. Some of the alters are children. What aspect of this case is unusual?
A. It is unusual for a person with DID to have 17 alters. B. It is unusual for a person with DID to have alters that are very different from the host personality. C. It is unusual for a person with DID to have fragmentary alters. D. No aspect of this case is unusual.
As Wendy read her textbook, she wrote summaries of each section. When she met with her study group, she was able to answer many, but not all of the questions posed by her study group. What should she do next?
a. She should choose a different memory strategy. b. She should keep using her current strategy, but concentrate on summarizing parts of the textbook she knows least well. c. She should stop studying because she used an effective memory strategy and knows most of the material already. d. She should stop going to the study group and study by herself.