I think so I’m not sure if I’m right but it’s a good guess
Sarah is in Piaget's substage of
"<span>
secondary circular reaction".</span>
In this
substage, the youngster turns out to be more centered on the world and starts
to deliberately rehash and repeat an activity with a specific end goal to
trigger a reaction in environment. For instance like in the given case hit it
to get a specific reaction.
Britain, in the late 1700s to the early 1800s.
