Why Is It Generally Considered Tentative to Describe What Infants

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Multiple Choice

Why is it generally considered tentative to describe what infants are thinking in research about causation?

• A) Researchers can only base their inferences on what the infants say to them.
• B) Researchers can make inferences but do not really know what an infant is thinking.
• C) Researchers cannot make inferences because habituation tasks are inconclusive.
• D) Researchers often use older children to tell them what it is infants are thinking.

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Definitions:

Formal Operational

The stage of cognitive development, as per Jean Piaget's theory, starting from about age 12 during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.

Cognitive Development

The study of how thinking, problem solving, and intelligence change and mature throughout life, especially during childhood.

Inductive Reasoning

A logical process in which multiple premises, all believed true or found true most of the time, are combined to obtain a specific conclusion.

Deductive Reasoning

A logical process in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises; inference from general to specific.