Piaget may have underestimated young children's cognitive competence in causal reasoning because:
A. he required children to manipulate objects they were not yet capable of manipulating.
B. he used only interviews with his own children as the basis of his conclusions.
C. he relied on verbally presented problems and verbal justifications of reasoning.
D. his problems deliberately tried to confuse young children.
Answer: C. he relied on verbally presented problems and verbal justifications of reasoning.
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