Baby Lee has just discovered that banging on a big pot produces a loud sound. He then decides to bang on a small pot to see what happens. A Piagetian would predict that such active experimentation with the environment would be most likely to first emerge in a child who is
A)12 hours old.
B)24 days old.
C)12 months old.
D)24 months old.

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According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, infants between 8-12 months old enter the sensorimotor stage where they begin to engage in active experimentation with their environment through trial and error learning. This means that Baby Lee's behavior of banging on the big pot to produce a loud sound is part of his active experimentation with the environment. Therefore, it is most likely that such behavior would first emerge in a child who is 12 months old.

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