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Placing a Child at Preoperational

This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.

State

A child who uses symbols freely and fails conservation is placed at the preoperational stage.

Show

The child feeds a doll with an invisible spoon and says the taller glass now holds more water.

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Symbolic capacity is the gain here. The name marks what is still absent rather than what has arrived.