Kaya is crying because her teddy bear fell off the kitchen table and bumped its nose.She pretends to be "Mommy" and goes to the cupboard for a Band-Aid to put on the bear's hurt nose.Because Kaya's thinking is intuitive and not logical,she is most likely in the ________ stage of cognitive development.

A) sensorimotor
B) concrete operational
C) formal operational
D) preoperational

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Final Answer : D, Explanation :  Kaya is in the preoperational stage of cognitive development, which typically occurs from ages 2 to 7. During this stage, children engage in symbolic play and have not yet developed the ability to perform operations or think logically about concrete events. Kaya's behavior of pretending and her belief that a Band-Aid will help her teddy bear are indicative of the intuitive thought processes characteristic of this stage.

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