Question

You have three identically sized crackers. You place two of them in front of you and one in front of a child who is in Piaget's preoperational stage. The child agrees that you have more crackers than he does. If you now break the child's cracker into two equal pieces and ask who has more, he will say:_____.

a. you still have more.
b. he has more.
c. his crackers are smaller.
d. you both have the same.

Answer 1

C. his crackers are smaller.

Step-by-step explanation:

The preoperational stage is piagets second stage in his theory of operational development. This stage is from two years of age to 7 years. The young children at this age are able to think more symbolically with their memory and imaginations being developed. The child at this stage learns to conserve mass so they would be able to recognize that their cracker is smaller than yours.