alleryA child says the clouds are white because someone painted them. Piaget calls this:
AAnimism
BEgocentrism
CArtificialism
DCentration
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Artificialism
1. Piaget described three forms of precausal thinking in preoperational children: animism, artificialism and transductive reasoning.
2. Animism gives life to objects (the road hurt me).
3. **Artificialism** explains natural features as the result of human action (someone painted the clouds).
4. The child here credits a person with making the clouds white, so this is artificialism.
**Why not the others:** Animism is the closest trap, but the child is not saying the clouds are alive; the child says a person made them so.
_Source: Wikipedia, "Piaget's theory of cognitive development", section "Symbolic function substage" (revision 1379038101)_
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