Formal Operational Stage: A Brief Psychological Analysis

Jean Piaget’s developmental theory is the belief that a person’s childhood plays an important role in their development. Piaget believed there are four stages of development a child goes through with each stage the child advances in development. The following paragraphs will explain how the formal operational stage and the preoperational stage are pertinent to a particular person.
Formal Operational Stage In the bedroom scene when the female teenage daughter is helping the mother figure out what clothing to wear on her business meetings and other formal situations where she wanted her mom to look in charge or smart shows the daughter to be in the formal operational stage. “The formal operational stage starts around the age of twelve and accomplished at the age of sixteen”. (Ghazi 2014). In the movie, the teenage girl was approximately sixteen years old, which showed that she was in the age frame for this stage. This type of thinking the sixteen-year-old girl shows is called abstract thinking. The type of thinking that the girl exhibits is abstract thinking. In the movie she says, “Navy is more muscle and Gray is for smarts,
Hank shows that he is still in the preoperational stage. Egocentrism, the inability to see things from another person’s point of view is an impact type of thinking in the preoperational stage. (Braun 2011). “Egocentrism is an assumption that another person views the world differently as one does oneself. However, this does not mean the child is selfish, it means the child is lacking the ability to examine another person’s view of things”. (Sharath 2014). Hank was asked by Nora in the movie, Cheaper by the Dozen, to help find her little brother who ran away. Hank instead, focused more on the television commercial he was featured in. Hank wanted his girlfriend, Nora, to see his perspective on things, which was that his commercial was more important than looking for her little