... and be the moral guide. Now, conflicts would arise because of the pre-wired instincts of the individual for life and death and between the id and society. The id's sexual and aggressive drives which are derived by the life and death instincts would conflict with society's pressure which are internalized in the superego structure. These conflicts would create anxiety and the ... characterize the type of abstract thought capable during this stage. In fact, formal operational thought can be compared to scientific thought or the scientific method in that a child creates a hypothesis, tests ...

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