A criticism of both the core knowledge perspective and Piaget's theory focuses on
A) how they ignore children's independent efforts to construct knowledge.
B) their inability to explain how heredity and environment jointly produce cognitive change.
C) how they underestimate the cognitive competencies of children and adolescents.
D) their inability to account for or explain stagewise change.
B
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