Which Criticism Has Been Applied to Piaget's Stage Theory of Cognitive

question 70

Multiple Choice

Which criticism has been applied to Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development?

• A)Development proceeds in a more continuous,gradual fashion than a stage model would propose.
• B)The preoperational stage should really be divided into seven substages.
• C)Piaget didn't propose enough stages to account for cognitive development in infancy.
• D)Stages aren't distinct enough to capture the sudden jumps in qualitative reasoning that children go through.

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