A teacher plans to assign her students the task of imagining and describing what the world would be like if all water disappeared completely for 24 hours. Piaget would probably predict that only children in the _______ stage of development would be capable of even entertaining this scenario.
A) formal operational
B) preoperational
C) sensorimotor
D) concrete operational

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Piaget believed that children in the formal operational stage of development (ages 12 and up) are capable of hypothetical and abstract thinking, which would be necessary to imagine and describe a scenario where all water disappears completely for 24 hours. Children in the preoperational (ages 2-7), sensorimotor (birth-2), and concrete operational (ages 7-12) stages of development are not yet able to engage in this level of abstract thought.

A Teacher Plans to Assign Her Students the Task of Imagining