According to developmental psychologist K. Warner Schaie, the first stage of cognitive development, encompassing all of childhood and adolescence, in which the main developmental task is to acquire information, is called
a) achieving stage.
b) responsible stage.
c) acquisitive stage.
d) executive stage.
c
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