Eleven-month-old Jenny looks at her toy golf club, grasps it tightly, and visually inspects it. She then uses the toy golf club to bring another toy within reach. In the context of Piaget's theory of infant development, Jenny is in the ________ substage of the sensorimotor stage.

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Jenny is demonstrating the ability to use tools (the toy golf club) to achieve a goal (bringing another toy within reach), which is characteristic of the "coordination of secondary circular reactions" substage. This substage, occurring roughly between 8 and 12 months of age, involves the coordination of vision and touch—hand-eye coordination—and the intentional actions to reach goals, showing an understanding of means-to-end.

Eleven-Month-Old Jenny Looks at Her Toy Golf Club, Grasps It