Although 8-year-old Claire can easily arrange sticks of differing lengths from shortest to tallest,she cannot solve the following problem: "Jack is taller than Sam,and Sam is taller than Max.Who is the tallest?" This is because Claire's concrete mental operations work poorly with
A) abstract ideas.
B) logical constructs.
C) everyday decision making.
D) organized thoughts.

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Claire's difficulty with the problem suggests that her cognitive development has not yet reached the stage where she can work effectively with abstract ideas or logical constructs. This is in line with Piaget's theory of cognitive development, which suggests that children at Claire's age (preoperational stage) struggle with abstract reasoning and tend to rely on concrete physical experiences to make sense of the world.

Although 8-Year-Old Claire Can Easily Arrange Sticks of Differing Lengths