When Piaget and His Colleagues Asked Children of Different Ages

question 98

Multiple Choice

When Piaget and his colleagues asked children of different ages to balance a scale using several different weights, they found that _____.

• A) by age 4, children tended to use logical deduction
• B) by age 7, children used spatial relationships
• C) by age 10, trial-and-error strategies based on logic are used to balance the scale
• D) by age 13 or 14, logic is used to understand a reciprocal relationship

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