You are babysitting your friend's son Mani, who is 5 years old, and daughter Shivani, who is 8 years old. You give them both 5 small pieces of candy, but Mani's row of candies is more spread out than Shivani's row
Mani begins to pout, and does not seem to understand that both he and Shivani have the same number of candies. This is because Mani is in what Piaget called the ___ stage of development, which is characterized by the belief that ___.
a. preoperational; "there's more than meets the eye"
b. preoperational; "what you see is what you get"
c. operational; "there's more than meets the eye"
d. operational; "what you see is what you get"
Answer: B
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