Like Piaget, Vygotsky believed that children

a. learn through observation and reinforcement.
b. actively seek to discover new principles.
c. come into the world like "blank slates" to be written upon.
d. must be grown like "plants in a hot house" to full bloom.


ANSWER: b

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