A Friend with a Three-Year-Old Child Has Decided to Try

question 166

Multiple Choice

A friend with a three-year-old child has decided to try to accelerate the child's cognitive development by teaching him how to conserve and handle hypothetical problems.The friend's attempts are:

• A) a waste of time, since the child will not develop faster than the Piagetian stages dictate
• B) potentially harmful to the child's self-esteem and psychological well-being
• C) going to work only if she is a skilled teacher of preschoolers
• D) plausible, because preoperational children have been able to do such problems after simplification of instructions

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