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Question 7 2 pts Questions 7 through 9 pertain to the following case example You are in a shopping mall with your neighbor and her 2 1/2 year-old son. In one of the shops, the boy spots a male clerk wearing a nose ring, smiles, points at the clerk and says "Bobby". Your neighbor says, "no sweetheart, that's not Bobby, that's a store man." Then, she turns and explains to you that Bobby is a friend of the family and the only other adult male the child knows who wears a nose ring. In which of Piaget's 4 stages was the child in the example? O sensori-motor pre-operational O concrete operational formal operational

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Answer: pre- operational

According to Jean Piaget cognitive development theory 2 to 7 years children comes under preoperational stage. In this stage children shows egocentrism. They can't think logically. In given case 2 1/2 child identified person with nose ring and didn't consider other unique characters. That's why he draw false conclusion. These lack of logic children experiences in pre operational stage.