A friend with a three-year-old child has decided to try to accelerate the child's cognitive development by teaching him how to conserve and handle hypothetical problems. The friend's attempts are:
A. a waste of time, since the child will not develop faster than the Piagetian stages dictate
B. potentially harmful to the child's self-esteem and psychological well-being
C. going to work only if she is a skilled teacher of preschoolers
D. plausible, because preoperational children have been able to do such problems after simplification of instructions
Answer: D
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