The nurse in a pediatric health care setting is using Piaget as a developmental model for client assessment. According to Piaget, during which of the following developmental stages does the child understand the concept of ice becoming water?
a. Sensorimotor
b. Preoperational
c. Concrete operations
d. Formal operations
C
During Piaget's concrete operations stage of cognitive development, the child is able to under-stand that objects or quantities remain the same despite a change in their physical appearance, such as when ice becomes water.
During Piaget's sensorimotor stage of cognitive development, the child is exploring the envi-ronment, but is unable to understand the concept of ice becoming water.
During Piaget's preoperational stage of cognitive development, the child is learning to think with the use of symbols and mental images but is unable to understand the concept of ice becoming water.
According to Piaget's formal operations stage of cognitive development, the individual's think-ing moves to abstract and theoretical subjects.
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