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You are acting as the lactation consultant for a new mother and her baby boy. As you are teaching the new mother about growth and development, you should teach the mother that her newborn infant is in the:
  1. Preoperational stage of psychosocial development.
  2. Preoperational stage of cognitive development.
  3. Sensorimotor stage of psychosocial development.
  4. Sensorimotor stage of cognitive development.
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Answer: D - As you are teaching the new mother about growth and development, you should teach her that her newborn infant is in the sensorimotor stage of cognitive development. The preoperational stage of cognitive development begins at about 2 years of age and it typically continues its development until the child is about 7 years of age, after which the child is in the concrete operations phase of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development.
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