Based on Recent Research, There Are Two Important Exceptions to Piaget's

question 136

Multiple Choice

Based on recent research, there are two important exceptions to Piaget's theory of imitation, one of which is that

• A) infants achieve the major milestones in the development of imitation at later ages than he thought.
• B) the order or sequence of development is different from what he proposed.
• C) deferred imitation does not occur until the development of symbolic thought in the preoperational stage.
• D) newborns imitate some facial gestures, particularly tongue protrusion.
• E) development of imitation occurs in distinct, widely separated stages.

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