Which of the following statements regarding cognitive development is false? Parents who reason openly with children can limit a child’s cognitive ability.

An educational environment that encourages children to explain personal thoughts generally improves cognitive ability.

Opportunities to reflect on prior knowledge often increases cognitive development.

Lack of opportunity to explore one’s environment can limit one’s reasoning.

The false statement is - option A. Parents who reason openly with children can limit a child’s cognitive ability.

Explanation:

Cognitive development is the ability of an individual how they think, perceive, and gains knowledge of their world or surrounding by the factors that acuire and learned genetically.

It includes parents who openly with children develops the cognitive ability. education that provides condition that allow to share personal thoughts helps in deveolpment of cognitive behaviour. Oppurtunity help in problem solving develops cognitive ability.