A child says the sidewalk was angry and made her fall. Piaget called this belief what?
AAnimism
BArtificialism
CCentration
DDecentration
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Animism
1. The child gives a lifeless object feelings and actions.
2. Piaget called this animism, a kind of precausal thinking.
3. Artificialism credits people with causing natural features instead.
_Source: Wikipedia, Piaget's theory of cognitive development, Symbolic function substage_
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