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Piaget described cognitive development as occurring in :

  • A.A continuous continuum
  • B.Four overlapping culture specific stages
  • C.Four qualitatively different stages
  • D.Three progressive levels

Answer: C

Piaget described cognitive development as occurring in four qualitatively different stages.

The four stages are sensorimotor (birth to about 2 years), preoperational (2 to 7), concrete operational (7 to 11) and formal operational (11 onwards). Each is a different kind of thinking, not just more of the same. They occur in a fixed, invariant order, and Piaget regarded them as universal.

A continuous continuum is the opposite of a stage theory. Piaget did not see his stages as culture-specific; that criticism came from his critics. 'Three progressive levels' describes Kohlberg's levels of moral reasoning, not Piaget's stages.

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