PSYC 4070 Midterm: Exam 3 Study Guide (aced the test and got 96%)
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12+ years old-may not fully be attained until 18-22. Think about the form of statements and ideas-rather than the concrete things the words represent! Concrete reasoners will try to solve many problems by trial-and-error. Formal reasoners will hypothesize and mentally consider the results. Based upon the feedback from old hypotheses, generate new and better hypotheses. One beaker contains one or a mixture of the chemicals 1-4. Take a few drops of beaker g and put in beaker x. Concrete reasoners are weak on a capacity called interpropositional thinking. Concrete reasoners can"t compare several hypotheses to see if they are logically consistent with each other. Concrete reasoners have difficulty generating and thinking about hypotheses. To a concrete reasoned-reality is the only possibility. To a formal-reality is one of many possibilities. Late in life, piaget moved away from a belief in rigid timelines-the necessity of the same changes always occurring in the same order.
