Cary was beating on his "drum" in the kitchen.Cary's drum is really one of his mother's cooking boilers.When Cary gets through beating on his drum, his mother takes it, washes it, and then puts it on the stove to boil water.Cary starts screaming, "You burn drum." Cary is exhibiting a behavioral characteristic of which cognitive stage?
A)formal operations
B)concrete operational
C)prelinguistic
D)preoperational

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Cary's behavior of attributing burning to the drum indicates that he is in the preoperational stage of cognitive development. In this stage, children tend to engage in egocentric thinking and struggle with mental operations such as conservation and reversibility. Cary's belief that his drum can be burned is an example of how he is unable to understand the physical properties of objects and how they can or cannot be damaged.

Cary Was Beating on His "Drum" in the Kitchen