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You give your younger brother Joe a bag of marbles. While he is playing with them, you ask him how many blue marbles ther are. He correctly answers, "Nine!" How many green marbles?" Joe says, "Four" You then ask, "are there more blue or green?" He responds, "Blue" Finally, you ask, "Are there more blue marbles or more round marbles?" Joe responds "Blue!" He is most likely in which developmental stage?

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The answer is preoperational stage.

Step-by-step explanation:

This the second stage in Piaget's structure of cognitive development. In this stage, children begin to manipulate symbols (they might pretend a remote control is a microphone). It's also characterised for the apparition of language.

During the preoperational stage, children cannot use concrete logic. In the example, Joe cannot yet compare the concepts of colour and shape mentally.

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