A child is 4 years old. At this stage in her cognitive development, Piaget would expect that she should be able to

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At 4 years old, a child is in the preoperational stage of Piaget's stages of cognitive development. During this stage, children begin to engage in symbolic play and learn to manipulate symbols, which means they can mentally represent objects that are not physically present.  The child begins to have mental representations of objects with which the child is not in direct sensorimotor contact (things that are not physically present.)

A Child Is 4 Years Old