Research on newborns indicates that they have a sense of number and quantity. What does this finding suggest about Piaget's theory of cognitive development?
A) It confirms what Piaget claimed about infants in the sensorimotor phase.
B) Some infants are born with superior intelligence.
C) Piaget may have underestimated some cognitive abilities of infants and children.
D) Culture determines what infants are capable of doing.

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Piaget believed that infants and young children's cognitive development is limited to sensorimotor intelligence and that complex cognitive abilities only develop after infancy. However, research on newborns' sense of number and quantity suggest that infants possess more cognitive abilities than what Piaget thought, and that cognitive development may be more continuous rather than staged as Piaget suggested.

Research on Newborns Indicates That They Have a Sense of Number