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A criticism of traditional Piagetian tasks is that:

A) infants may be able to perform successfully on the tasks without having the underlying representational competencies.
B) infants may have underlying representational competencies that they are unable to express through their performance on the tasks.
C) the tasks are only reliable when infants from certain cultural groups are tested.
D) the procedures are so complex that other researchers are unable to reproduce Piaget's methods.

Piagetian Tasks

Tasks designed to assess children's cognitive development at different stages, according to Jean Piaget's theory.

Representational Competencies

The ability to use symbols or abstract elements to stand for objects and concepts, essential for language, math, and problem solving.

Criticism

The expression of disapproval of someone or something based on perceived faults or mistakes.

  • Understand the methodologies used in developmental psychology research to study infant cognition, including the violation-of-expectations technique.
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