Jean Piaget showed children two identical beakers filled with the same amount of water.After the children agreed that both beakers held the same amount of water,Piaget poured the water from one beaker into a taller,narrower beaker and then asked them about the amounts of water in each beaker.Children in what stage would be unable to distinguish the fact that the beakers held the same amount of water?

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Children in the preoperational stage (ages 2-7) are unable to comprehend conservation, which is the understanding that certain properties of an object (such as volume or mass) remain the same even if the object's appearance changes. In the beaker experiment, they would not understand that the amount of water is the same in both beakers despite the different shapes.

Jean Piaget Showed Children Two Identical Beakers Filled with the Same