During her ninth grade science class, Maricella became interested in genetics for the first time because she was reading about dinosaurs in the book Jurassic Park. Therefore, for an English reading class, Maricella asked her teacher if she could write about what it would be like if someone genetically reproduced some kind of super-dinosaur by accident. Maricella wrote on this subject, which would have been too abstract for her just two years prior. According to Piaget, this shows that Maricella had reached theformal operational stage
egocentrism
propositional thought
whole-language approach