Piaget mistakenly believed that:
A) children begin to grasp the concept of object permanence during the sensorimotor stage.
B) during the stage of concrete operations, children understand conservation.
C) an understanding of self-awareness does not appear until the formal operational stage.
D) preoperational children cannot take another person's point of view.
Answer: D
Rationale: Piaget believed that children were egocentric until the end of the preoperational stage. Modern research indicates that children take the perspective of others long before the preoperational phase is complete.
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