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​in the children's television show pee wee's playhouse, the floor, globe, and chair could talk, move, and had their own personalities. the fact that many young children view such objects as being "alive" is consistent with the piagetian concept of

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The correct answer is animism.

According to Piaget's theory of cognitive development, up to age five, children in the preoperational stage of development believe that inanimate objects such as toys, tables, blankets or dolls are "alive", and capable of having intentions and feelings, conversations, moving around freely, etc., just like humans and animate beings.
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