Piaget believed that at adolescence,young people first become capable of
A) practical intelligence.
B) hypothetico-deductive reasoning.
C) animistic thinking.
D) transitive inference.

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Piaget believed that hypothetico-deductive reasoning, the ability to form hypotheses and systematically test them to reach a solution, emerges during adolescence. While practical intelligence and transitive inference may develop at this stage as well, they were not specifically emphasized by Piaget. Animistic thinking, the belief that inanimate objects have feelings and intentions, is characteristic of the preoperational stage of development in early childhood.

Piaget Believed That at Adolescence,young People First Become Capable of