Cross-Cultural Researchers Have Demonstrated That It Is Difficult to Take

question 57

Multiple Choice

Cross-cultural researchers have demonstrated that it is difficult to take measures of a specific task to indicate a child's stage or level of cognitive development because

• A) tasks such as those designed by Piaget were too limited to understand children's cognitive development.
• B) development does not proceed in stages in most cultures.
• C) Piaget's stages are not relevant cross-culturally.
• D) different cultures stress different concepts, which are tapped by different tasks.

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