The mother of a young child who didn't like to drink milk was trying to coax him to drink some.Taking the glass of milk,she poured it all into a small cup and said,"There! Now you won't have to drink so much." She would never have fooled the child if he had not been in the ________________ stage.

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The preoperational stage, according to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, is characterized by egocentric thinking and the inability to understand conservation (the concept that quantity remains the same despite changes in appearance). In this stage, children may be easily fooled or mislead by appearances or superficial changes, like pouring milk into a smaller cup. As they enter the concrete operational stage, they begin to understand conservation and would not be fooled by this trick.

The Mother of a Young Child Who Didn't Like to Drink