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Piaget Animism

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Animism is another key aspect of the pre-operation stage. This is the belief that inanimate objects have emotions, thoughts, and other qualities of a living organism. This is demonstrated in situations where a child may believe that a teddy bear will become cold and lonely if left alone. According to Piaget, animistic behavior denotes egocentrism as it proposes that a child is incapable of distinguishing amongst the psychological and the physical world. Thus, as a child can feel pain and emotions, they believe everything else that exists does so too. While, Piaget proposed that animistic thinking is a main feature of rationing in the preoperational stage, Shields and Duveen (1982) found that a child of 3 years old is able to resolve which,
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