Unlike adults and older children, children up to the age 17 are unable to understand coaching instructions, rules or strategies, or to contemplate doing two things at the same time. Which theory explains this?

• A. Kolb’s learning style
• B. Bandura’s social cognitive development ( self-efficacy )
• C. Piaget’s theory of cognitive development ( preoperational stage of thinking )
• D. Gardener’s theory of multiple intelligences ( bodily-kinesthetic intelligences )