A Child Is Shown a Scenario in Which Mary Places

Multiple Choice

A child is shown a scenario in which Mary places a ball in a cabinet and walks away.Tiffany comes along and moves the ball into a drawer while Mary is gone.When Mary returns,the child is asked where Mary will look for her ball.The child incorrectly assumes that Mary will look in the drawer for the ball.This child is most likely in which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?

A) preoperational
B) concrete operational
C) formal operational
D) felfex-oriented