On Dora's first birthday,one her aunts brought a set of lego basic bricks that she absolutely loves.Dora spends hours building,breaking,and rebuilding towers from the blocks and smiles widely whenever she discovers something new she can do with them.Dora's preoccupation with manipulating the building blocks in different ways reflects a function of the sensorimotor substage of _____.
A)secondary circular reactions
B)tertiary circular reactions,novelty,and curiosity
C)first habits and primary circular reactions
D)simple reflexes

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Tertiary circular reactions,novelty,and curiosity is Piaget's fifth sensorimotor substage,which develops between 12 and 18 months of age.In this substage,infants become intrigued by the many properties of objects and by the many things that they can make happen to objects.

On Dora's First Birthday,one Her Aunts Brought a Set of Lego