Piaget stressed that young adults are more quantitatively advanced in their thinking than adolescents because:
A)they engage in less logical and abstract thinking.
B)they have more knowledge.
C)they enter the concrete operational stage at about 18 years of age.
D)they engage in more idealistic thinking.

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Piaget believed that cognitive development progresses through stages, and young adults have more knowledge and experience which helps them to think more complexly and abstractly. They have reached the formal operational stage, which allows them to think logically and abstractly. This means that they are more advanced in their thinking than adolescents, who may still be in the concrete operational stage or in the early stages of formal operational thinking.

Piaget Stressed That Young Adults Are More Quantitatively Advanced in Their