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 places! " this child is likely in piaget's stage of development and has not yet arrived in piaget's stage.

The answer is preoperational; concrete operational. The preoperational stage starts about age 2 as children begins to talk and last until about age 7. Throughout this stage, children start to involve in figurative play and acquire to operate symbols while the concrete operational is a stage that starts from the time of middle childhood and is considered by the growth of logical thought.