Piaget's Sensorimotor stage is characterized by which age range and features?

• A. 12+ years; abstract reasoning
• B. 7-11 years; logical operations
• C. 2-6 years; symbolic thinking; egocentrism
• D. 0-2 years; uses senses and motor skills; object permanence

Answer: (D)

The main concept being tested is Piaget's sensorimotor stage, which lasts from birth to about 2 years and centers on learning through direct sensory experience and motor action. In this stage, infants move from reflexive behaviors to purposeful interactions with the world as their coordination between perception and movement develops. A defining milestone is object permanence—the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they are not in view—which marks a shift from relying solely on immediate sensation to forming mental representations of the world.

This aligns with the description of early infancy: using senses and motor skills with the emergence of object permanence. Other stages describe different developments: the stage around ages 2 to 7 involves symbolic thinking and egocentrism, the stage roughly 7 to 11 emphasizes logical operations, and the stage starting around age 12 involves more abstract reasoning.