Evidence that logical operations develop gradually and that preschoolers can be trained to perform well on Piagetian tasks poses a serious challenge to Piaget's view that ________.
A. children are aware that a symbolic object can be seen as both an object in its own right and a symbol
B. children cannot mentally go through a series of steps in a problem and then reverse direction
C. the most fundamental deficiency of preoperational thinking is egocentrism
D. there is an abrupt change toward logical reasoning around age 6 or 7
Answer: D
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