A teacher concludes that improvements in a particular student's academic ability were caused by a change in that student's cognitive abilities. This conclusion is vulnerable to criticism because ________.
A. changes in academic ability have no relationship to changes in cognitive development
B. the definitions of the different domains of child development are too vague to support any conclusions about improved abilities
C. all improvements in academic ability are the product of changes in social and emotional development
D. the improvements could have been influenced by changes in physical or social and emotional development
Answer: D
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