According to the Most Recent Evidence, What Can Be Said

question 89

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 egocentrism and object permanence.
• D) Piaget's concept that the qualitative changes in cognitive processing is more important than the quantitative changes has been effectively refuted.
• E) They were so groundless that the views of Vygotsky completely eclipsed them.

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Definitions:

Independently

Without being influenced or affected by other factors or variables.

Standard Error

The estimate of the standard deviation of a sampling distribution.

Sample Mean

The average value of all the observations in a sample, calculated as the sum of the observations divided by the number of observations.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability of a set of data points, indicating how spread out the numbers are.