In a conservation of liquid experiment, Victoria is shown two identical beakers filled with the same amount of juice. The juice from one of the beakers is poured into a taller, thinner beaker. Victoria now says that there is more juice in the tall, thin beaker than in the original beaker. Victoria appears to be in Piaget's ________ stage of cognitive development.

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In Piaget's theory of cognitive development, children in the preoperational stage (ages 2-7) have difficulty understanding conservation, which is the idea that the quantity of a substance remains the same even when its appearance is altered. Victoria's belief that the juice in the taller, thinner beaker is more than the juice in the original beaker is an example of a failure to conserve.

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