Three-year-old Isabella is pretending to feed her doll. She puts three wooden blocks on a toy plate. Using the blocks as food demonstrates

A) symbolic play.
B) sensorimotor play.
C) animism.
D) intuitive play.


A) symbolic play. In symbolic play, children use one object to stand for another.

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