During a power outage, Blair does not want to finish eating her vanilla ice cream because, as she puts it, "When the lights went out, the ice cream turned black, and I don't like black ice cream!" Blair is in the ____ stage of development.
A) concrete operational
B) formal operational
C) sensorimotor
D) preoperational

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Blair is in the preoperational stage of development, which typically includes children ages 2-7. This stage is characterized by egocentrism and a lack of understanding of the principles of conservation—the understanding that certain properties of objects, like volume, mass, and number, remain the same despite changes in the forms or arrangements of objects. Blair's reaction to the ice cream changing color in the dark (due to lack of light, not an actual change in the ice cream) illustrates this lack of understanding, typical of the preoperational stage.

During a Power Outage, Blair Does Not Want to Finish