With Regard to Jean Piaget's Stages of Development, Modern Developmental

question 340

Multiple Choice

With regard to Jean Piaget's stages of development, modern developmental researchers have determined that

• A)most children learn cognitive skills noticeably later than Piaget assumed, a result that may be related to the fact the Piaget observed his own children
• B)within a given stage of development, performance on a wide variety of tasks is largely uniform and consistent
• C)the order of the stages of cognitive development is significantly affected by culture
• D)cultural factors appear to influence cognitive development and Piaget may have been biased in his conceptualization of "cognitive development"

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