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After having unprotected sex with his girlfriend,16-year-old Earl says,"I never worry about getting AIDS because tough guys like me are immune to those kinds of diseases." This ill-fated thinking is reflective of
A) an imaginary audience.
B) a personal fable.
C) horizontal décalage.
D) hypothetical-deductive reasoning.
Personal Fable
A concept in adolescent development where an individual believes that their thoughts, feelings, and experiences are unique and not understood by others.
Hypothetical-Deductive Reasoning
Piaget’s formal operational concept that adolescents have the cognitive ability to develop hypotheses about ways to solve problems and can systematically deduce which is the best path to follow in solving the problem.
- Pinpoint the traits of formal-operational thought, encompassing abstract and hypothetical-deductive reasoning capabilities.
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- Pinpoint the traits of formal-operational thought, encompassing abstract and hypothetical-deductive reasoning capabilities.
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