When Katie's grandpa shows her a group of ten hogs and three cattle and asks her, "Are there more hogs or more animals?" Katie responds by saying, "There are more animals, Grandpa." One year earlier, she would have said that there were more hogs. According to Piaget's theory, it is most likely that Katie is currently in which stage?

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Katie's ability to understand that the total number of animals (hogs plus cattle) is greater than the number of hogs alone indicates she has developed the concept of conservation, which is characteristic of the concrete operational stage in Piaget's theory.

When Katie's Grandpa Shows Her a Group of Ten Hogs