An English student who excels at analyzing the themes of a play
A) will also excel at analyzing political events.
B) can apply her formal operational abilities to mathematics problems.
C) may not be especially good at formal operational tasks in another subject area.
D) simultaneously develops formal operations that can be applied to academic tasks, but not real-world problems.

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Analyzing themes in a play requires the ability to think abstractly and make connections between different ideas, which are skills associated with formal operational thinking. However, this does not necessarily translate to all other subject areas or real-world tasks. Exceling in one area does not guarantee success in another.

An English Student Who Excels at Analyzing the Themes of a Play