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 ___.

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Piaget called this stage preoperational, which is characterized by the belief that "what you see is what you get." This means that children in this stage have difficulty understanding concepts such as conservation, which is the idea that even if the appearance of an object changes, its quantity or volume remains the same. In this case, Mani does not understand that despite his candies being more spread out, he and Shivani have the same number of candies.

You Are Babysitting Your Friend's Son Mani,who Is 5 Years