Three-year-old Betty's favorite pastime is scribbling designs. She says the drawings represent her parents, cat, bicycle, and home. This indicates that Betty is in the _____ substage of Piaget's preoperational stage.
A) symbolic function
B) intuitive thought
C) operational
D) sensorimotor

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Betty's ability to use scribbles to represent objects and people indicates she is in the symbolic function substage of Piaget's preoperational stage, where children begin to use symbols to represent objects that are not present.

Three-Year-Old Betty's Favorite Pastime Is Scribbling Designs