{"id":7990,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/formal_operations\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:50","slug":"formal_operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/formal_operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Formal operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521651172\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/aus\/catalogue\/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521651172?target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Piaget<\/a>&#8216;s four broad stages of cognitive development. &nbsp;in formal operations, adolescents become capable of thinking in terms of abstract forms. &nbsp;Because they involve manipulation of formal rules and abstract expression, algebra and symbolic logic provide examples of formal operational thinking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"abstract_reasoning\">Abstract reasoning<\/a>, <a href=\"cognitive_development\">Cognitive development<\/a>, <a href=\"piaget-s_stage_theory\">Piaget&#8217;s stage theory<\/a>, <a href=\"stage\">Stage<\/a>, <a href=\"stage_of_cognitive_development\">Stage of cognitive development<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last of Piaget&#8216;s four broad stages of cognitive development. &nbsp;in formal operations, adolescents become capable of thinking in terms of abstract forms. &nbsp;Because they involve manipulation of formal rules and abstract expression, algebra and symbolic logic provide examples of formal operational thinking.&nbsp; See Abstract reasoning, Cognitive development, Piaget&#8217;s stage theory, Stage, Stage of cognitive &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/formal_operations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Formal operations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}