Jean Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development in Infants and Children
Fourth stage: Formal Operational Reasoning
During early adolescence, individuals enter Piaget's period of formal operations. Now cognitive development reaches its peak. Teenagers become capable of using and manipulating their symbolic representations in abstract thought. They can create and logically think through hypothetical situations. Scientific and deductive reasoning become possible. The individual is cognitively mature.
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