Adolescents begin thinking abstractly, considering how their actions influence a situation, during select one:

a. middle adolescence

b. preadolescence

c. early adolescence

d. late adolescence

I believe the answer is: C. early adolescence

Before entering early adolescence, the way children think would 100% be determined by their parent. During early adolescence, they started to crave the attention of other people from peers around their age and develop an abstract concept of how their behaviour could affect other people around them.