Piaget Believed That Infants Under the Age of One Year

question 572

Multiple Choice

Piaget believed that infants under the age of one year cannot use internal representations and have no memory of people and objects that are out of sight.Such abilities, he believed, emerge only after

• A) a child becomes less egocentric.
• B) a long period of sensorimotor development.
• C) speech has progressed beyond its earliest stages.
• D) a child develops reversibility.

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