Which of the following is a part of Piaget's theory about children's cognitive development?
A) Children were passive in their thinking, not active.
B) Children seem to have age-related patterns in their thinking.
C) Children's thinking is highly irregular and inconsistent.
D) Children realized that a clinical method would not be an asset in his research.
B) Children seem to have age-related patterns in their thinking. Piaget noticed that children of the same age tended to give the same wrong answers, whereas children of a different age tended to give different wrong answers.
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