Sara has made a playhouse out of the large box in which her mother's new washer was crated.She has drawn pictures on it and put in some of her toys.The next morning her toys are in her room, and the box is gone.Sara asks her father where her playhouse is and begins crying when her father tells her that he took it apart and put it in the garbage because it was taking up too much space in their apartment.Like other children her age, Sara sees the name of an object as being as much a part of the object as its size, shape, and color.Sara is most likely in which cognitive stage of development?

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The fact that Sara sees the name of an object as being as much a part of the object as its size, shape, and color indicates that she is in the preoperational stage of cognitive development according to Piaget's theory. In this stage, children's thinking is still dominated by perceptions and they are unable to understand abstract concepts or logic. Sara's attachment to the name "playhouse" shows that she has not yet developed the ability to think logically about relationships between objects and their names.

Sara Has Made a Playhouse Out of the Large Box