Three-year-old Quentin is wearing sunglasses.Even though the white wall appears brown to him through the sunglasses,he understands that his friend Felicia sees the wall as white because she is not wearing any glasses.Quentin's observation ____.
A) explains the phenomena of object permanence
B) is consistent with Kohlberg's conventional stage of reasoning
C) demonstrates a limitation to Piaget's theory
D) suggests that generativity may occur earlier in the lifespan

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Quentin's observation challenges Piaget's theory of object permanence, which suggests that young children are not able to understand that objects continue to exist even when they are not visible or directly perceptible. Quentin's ability to understand that his friend sees the wall as white despite his own perception through the sunglasses suggests that he has developed some level of perspective-taking and understanding of others' perceptions, which Piaget's theory did not account for.

Three-Year-Old Quentin Is Wearing Sunglasses