The mother of a young child who didn't like to drink juice was trying to coax him to drink some.Taking the glass of juice,she poured it all into a smaller cup and said,"There! Now you won't have to drink so much." She would never have fooled the child if he had not been in the _______ stage.
A)preconventional
B)preoperational
C)concrete operational
D)formal operational

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The preoperational stage is characterized by egocentric thinking and limited understanding of conservation, which is the ability to understand that a quantity can remain the same despite changes in appearance. The child in this scenario is likely to be in the preoperational stage because he cannot understand that the amount of juice remains the same despite being poured into a smaller cup.

The Mother of a Young Child Who Didn't Like to Drink