alleryA child who slips on the road says, 'The road hurt me.' Piaget calls this thinking:
AArtificialism
BCentration
CSeriation
DAnimism
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Animism
1. The child treats the road as if it were alive and could act on purpose.
2. Giving life-like qualities to non-living things is **animism**.
3. Piaget linked animism to the egocentrism of preoperational children.
**Why not the others:** Artificialism is the belief that natural things are made or caused by people, which is a different error.
_Source: NCERT Class 11 Psychology, Ch 3 "Human Development", section "Cognitive Development", p. 50 (ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/kepy103.pdf)_
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