Piaget's theory is described as a constructivist approach because he

A) stressed the social and cultural contributions to children's thinking.
B) viewed children as discovering virtually all knowledge about their world through their own activity.
C) emphasized how genetic and environmental factors combine to yield more complex ways of thinking.
D) believed that children construct knowledge through adult training and modeling.


B

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