During a power outage, Blair does not want to finish eating her vanilla ice cream because, as she put 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's belief that the ice cream turned black just because the lights went out is an example of magical thinking, which is common in the preoperational stage of development (ages 2-7). Children at this stage often have difficulty understanding cause-and-effect relationships and instead attribute events to magical or supernatural causes.

During a Power Outage, Blair Does Not Want to Finish