According to Piaget, Cognitive Development Is Characteristic of an Invariant

question 186

Multiple Choice

According to Piaget, cognitive development is characteristic of an invariant sequence of stages that

• A)vary in order from person to person.
• B)move in one direction in youth and then regress back in old age.
• C)follow in a specific order (i.e., cannot be skipped).
• D)differ depending on whether one is male or female.

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Definitions:

Heterozygous

A genetic condition where an individual has two different alleles of a particular gene or genes.

Allele

One of two or more alternative forms of a gene that arise by mutation and are found at the same place on a chromosome.

Blending Inheritance

An outdated theory of heredity proposing that the traits of offspring are a uniform blend of the parents' traits.

Dominant Alleles

Alleles that mask the effect of other alleles for the same gene in heterozygous individuals, determining the phenotype.