Educational Psychology / Unit 3 EDP 0230 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Formal Thought Is Not Universal
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The idea
Formal operational thinking is not reached by everyone, nor used everywhere: it depends on schooling and experience, and many college students fail formal-reasoning problems.
In practice
An adult may reason abstractly about their work but concretely about unfamiliar science.
Where people slip
Training helps only briefly, and adolescents reason through two systems, fast intuitive thought and slower analytic thought.
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