Which of the following statements about Jean Piaget is NOT true?
Correct answer: B. According to Piaget, the sensorimotor stage extends from approximately 2 to 7 years of age.
- A. Piaget developed a model of cognitive development which holds that children's thinking progresses through a series of orderly stages.
- B. According to Piaget, the sensorimotor stage extends from approximately 2 to 7 years of age.
- C. Piaget regarded the child in the sensorimotor stage as acting to learn about itself and its relations to the environment.
- D. Piaget believed that children learn by doing.
Explanation
The sensorimotor stage lasts from birth to about two years; ages approximately two to seven belong to Piaget’s preoperational stage. The other statements accurately describe Piaget’s view of active, stage-based cognitive development.
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