Practice mode Pedagogy

In Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, at what age does the formal operational stage begin?

Correct answer B. 11

Explanation

Piaget placed the formal operational stage from about age 11 onwards. At this point children begin to think abstractly, reason hypothetically and test ideas systematically, following the concrete operational stage of roughly 7 to 11.

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