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?
A) sensorimotor
B) preoperational
C) concrete operational
D) postconventional

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According to Piaget's theory, children in the concrete operational stage (ages 7-11) understand conservation and the idea that the quantity of a substance remains the same despite changes in appearance. Therefore, Katie's ability to recognize that there are more animals now despite the addition of only three cattle suggests that she is in the concrete operational stage. In contrast, children in the preoperational stage (ages 2-7) tend to focus on appearances rather than underlying properties and may have said there were more hogs because that is what they saw.

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