Ateacher shows a 7-year-old child in first grade a map and tells her, "you live here, in atlanta, georgia." the child emphatically disagrees, declaring, "no, i live in atlanta. i can't live in georgia too, 'cause i can't live in two pieces! " this child is likely in piaget's stage of development and has not yet arrived in piaget's stage.

The child is likely to be in the preoperational stage in which the child has no ability of using logic or in terms of separating ideas. The child is not yet in the concrete operational stage of which the child could be more logical with the things around him or her. So the answer in the first space provided is the preoperational stage and the second blank as the concrete operational stage.