According to the Most Recent Evidence,what Can Be Said of Piaget's

question 93

Multiple Choice

According to the most recent evidence,what can be said of Piaget's findings?

• A)The capacities of infants usually are not as high as claimed by Piaget.
• B)Object permanence has been shown as early as 1 month of age,thus refuting Piaget's claim that it is not established until toddlerhood.
• C)Piaget's theory seems to underestimate the age by which a child masters object permanence,indicating they are not as egocentric as Piaget believed.
• D)Piaget's concept that the qualitative changes in cognitive processing are more important than the quantitative changes has been effectively refuted.

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