When adolescents first enter formal operations,they may have difficulty distinguishing their thinking about their own thoughts from their thinking about the thoughts of others.Piaget would have argued that this results in a distinctive kind of adolescent ____.

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Piaget described this stage as the formal operational stage and one of its characteristics is egocentrism, which refers to the difficulty adolescents have in distinguishing their own thoughts from the thoughts of others. This results in a distinctive kind of adolescent egocentrism.

When Adolescents First Enter Formal Operations,they May Have Difficulty Distinguishing