According to Piaget, the interesting part of testing children is in what kind of errors they make in their thinking. He believed the errors made by children were the result of:
A. their inability to pay attention to adult explanations
B. the limited understanding of their experiences
C. a lack of curiosity in some children
D. a limited attention span in general
B. the limited understanding of their experiences
C. a lack of curiosity in some children
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A. preschool years B. emerging adulthood C. early childhood D. middle childhood
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A) signal detection. B) accommodation. C) Weber's law. D) sensory adaptation.
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A) flattens; behind B) flattens; on C) bulges; in front of D) bulges; on
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a. Active child b. Holistic development c. Nature-nurture d. Quantitative-qualitative change