Placing a Child at Preoperational
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State
A child who uses symbols freely and fails conservation is placed at the preoperational stage.
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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.
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