Which criticism has been applied to Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development?

A. Development proceeds in a more continuous, gradual fashion than a stage model would propose.
B. The preoperational stage should really be divided into seven substages.
C. Piaget didn't propose enough stages to account for cognitive development in infancy.
D. Stages aren't distinct enough to capture the sudden jumps in qualitative reasoning that children go through.


Answer: A

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