Amar is a 15-year-old school student. Which task can he now answer better than…
2023
Amar is a 15-year-old school student. Which task can he now answer better than he likely could five years ago?
- A.
Describe the most crowded place of your city in your own words.
- B.
Describe the cleanliness and beauty of your city.
- C.
Describe the most crowded place of your city as if you are flying in the sky.
- D.
Describe the beauty of your city as you saw it in a dream.
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Correct answer: C
Answer: Describe the most crowded place of your city as if you are flying in the sky.
At age 15, Amar is typically in Piaget’s formal operational stage. This stage supports abstract, hypothetical, and perspective-based reasoning.
Five years earlier, at about age 10, he would generally be in the concrete operational stage, where thinking is more tied to directly observed situations.
Imagining a crowded place from the sky requires a hypothetical viewpoint and mental spatial transformation, so it best matches the ability that develops later.
The other options mostly ask for concrete description or subjective narration, which are less diagnostic of formal operational thinking.