Vygotsky's theory is growing in influence because
A) he emphasized how children and adolescents progress cognitively from stage to stage.
B) his idea that children's and adolescents' comprehension of the world is an outcome of
their interactions with their parents, peers, and other members of society is both appealing
and well supported by research findings.
C) he emphasized the link between brain development processes and
information-processing perspectives.
D) research findings are supportive of his ideas that cognitive development proceeds
through gradual quantitative improvements in attention, perception, understanding, and
memory.
B
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