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Some Western Legal Systems Consider Either 7 or 8 as the Age

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Some Western legal systems consider either 7 or 8 as the age at which a child attains reason. Is such a designation defensible from a Piagetian standpoint?


A) Yes. Children do acquire some basic reasoning skills during the concrete operational period.
B) Yes. Children become capable of abstract, hypothetical reasoning during the concrete operational period.
C) No. Children are unable to reason prior to the formal operational period.
D) No. Children can reason much earlier than this, i.e., during the preoperational period.

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