As three-year-old Angelo eats his bagel, he accidentally breaks it in half. He then says to his mom, "Uh oh, the bagel gone. I go get another." Angelo is in the _____ stage of cognitive development.

sensorimotor stage - the learning of simple actions such as looking, speech, etc. This takes place from 0 - 2 years.
preoperational stage - the stage of using words and symbols. It also involves some stage of reasoning. This takes place between 2 to 7 years
concrete operational stage - the development of logical reasoning an processing of information. This takes palace between 7 to 11 years.
formal operational stage - the adolescent stage. This is the stage from 12 years up. This is where children learn from the different physical and social perspective.

Judging from the question and Piagent's classification above, it is likely that the child is in the preoperational stage of development.

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Answer:

Second stage: Pre-operational stage

Explanation:

At this stage, children begin to gain the ability to put themselves in the place of others and for this reason, they are able to act and play role games. Despite this change, egocentrism is somehow still present and because of this, there are difficulties in accessing more abstract thoughts or reflections. At this stage, children are not yet able to perform complex mental operations, just as an adult does, so Piaget also talks about what is known as "magical thinking" that arises from simple and arbitrary associations that the child makes when trying understand how the world works.

This stage is present in children between the ages of 2 and 7 years, their response reflects their particular consideration of the fact