Piaget's reliance on children's verbal explanations of their reasoning may have:

A) been too simplistic for young children.
B) been appropriate for false-belief tasks but not for perspective-taking tasks.
C) led him to focus too much attention on egocentric thinking in young children.
D) led him to underestimate their causal reasoning abilities.

Verbal Explanations

The act of clarifying or providing information on a topic through the use of spoken words.

Causal Reasoning

The process of identifying cause and effect relationships between events, allowing for predictions and understanding of the world.

Egocentric Thinking

A cognitive perspective where an individual has difficulty seeing situations from viewpoints other than their own, common in early childhood.