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- FORMAL OPERATIONS TEST
- Jean Piaget believed we grow through
- four distinct stages of cognitive
- development. The fourth and highest
- stage is formal operations. At this
- stage, the individual is able to
- consider all possible relationships
- in a situation and think hypothet-
- ically. The criteria for questions
- are interesting: each premise in an
- item is either imaginary or absurd;
- in each item there are logical con-
- nections in the premises; the task
- requires a simple deduction through
- the use of rules of inference; and
- all premises are assumed to be true.
- (c) 1972 William M. Bart, U. of MN.
- Used by permission.
- $
- INSTRUCTIONS: You will be presented
- with 30 items. Each item consists of
- one premise or more followed by six
- possible conclusions. You are to
- assume that the premise is true,
- even if it is foreign to you or con-
- trary to your experience. Determine
- which of the six conclusions is true
- and valid given that the premise is
- true. You can skip a question by
- pressing RETURN. If you have time
- you will be allowed to go through
- the test again to fill in and change
- answers. You have 40 minutes.
- $