Four-Year-Old Alonzo's Older Sister, Kaylen, Is in a High School

Multiple Choice

Four-year-old Alonzo's older sister, Kaylen, is in a high school play. Her character pretends to be a boy, so at one point she goes backstage and changes out of her elaborate dress and into a peasant boy's clothes. After she does this, Alonzo asks his mother when Kaylen will come back on the stage. When Mother points to Kaylen, Alonzo says, "No, that's a boy, and Kaylen is a girl."Mother tries to explain that Kaylen's clothes have changed but she is still a girl, but Alonzo doesn't understand because he hasn't yet developed

A) preconventional reasoning.
B) postconventional reasoning.
C) gender constancy.
D) gender identity.