One weakness of Piaget's cognitive-developmental theory is that it ________.

A. fails to explain how infants use organization to make sense of the world
B. does not account for cognitive changes that take place in the first two years
C. claims that at birth, infants explore purposefully
D. was based on a very small sample of children


Answer: D

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