Cary Was Beating on His "Drum" in the Kitchen

Multiple Choice

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