Short for HyperText Markup Language, the authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web. HTML is similar to SGML, although it is not a strict subset. HTML defines the structure and layout of a Web document by using a variety of tags and attributes.
Formal operational thought is the type of cognitive activity that occurs within the titular formal operational stage as articulated by Piaget's theory of cognitive development. According to Piaget, the formal operational stage begins at around age eleven.
Compare and contrast formal operational thinking (Piaget) and postformal thinking (pragmatism, dialectical thinking, and reflective judgment). 1  Formal Operational Thinking - Hypothetical Deductive Reasoning. Systematically testing possible solutions and arrives at and answer that can be defended and explained. Pragmatism - Theory of cognitive development proposing that postformal thinking involves adapting logical thinking to the practical constraints of real life.