According to a Piagetian, the most likely reason that a 4-year-old could not solve a conservation of number problem is that

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According to Piaget, children in the preoperational stage (approximately ages 2 to 7) often focus on one aspect of a situation, neglecting other important features. In the case of conservation of number problems, children's attention is often captured by the perceptual aspect (e.g., the length of the row) rather than the quantitative aspect, leading to incorrect conclusions about the equality of sets after a transformation that changes appearance but not quantity.

According to a Piagetian, the Most Likely Reason That a 4-Year-Old