Sara is angry at her older brother and calls him "a panty-girdle." At other times when she was angry, she called him "a toilet" and "a rat." Sara's preoccupation with name calling is very common during the _____ stage when children see the name of an object as being as much a part of the object as its size, shape, and color.

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The preoperational stage is the second stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, where children are between the ages of 2 to 7 years old. During this stage, children are preoccupied with language and the use of symbols, and they see words as objects themselves. This is why name-calling and labeling are common during this stage. The other answer choices are not applicable because prelinguistic refers to the stage before language development, concrete operational refers to the third stage of cognitive development, and formal operations refers to the final stage of cognitive development which begins around age 12.

Sara Is Angry at Her Older Brother and Calls Him