Three-year-old Ben is pretending to build a birdhouse with some pieces of wood lying in the yard.Suddenly,Ben says,"I need a hammer to fix this," even when there is no hammer present.According to Piaget,Ben has entered the
A) sensorimotor stage.
B) concrete operations stage.
C) formal operations stage.
D) preoperational stage.

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Ben's behavior of pretending and using symbols (referring to a hammer even when it's not physically present) reflects the preoperational stage of Piaget's cognitive development theory, which typically spans from 2 to 7 years old. During this stage, children engage in symbolic play and use mental representation, but their thinking is not yet logical or concrete.

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