Question

Four-year-old marly is playing with her toy cars. she favors the blue car, but plays with the green car for at least a few minutes. she says, "i don't want the green one to get lonely." this is an example of a)dual representation. b)egocentrism. c)animistic thinking. d)centration.

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: C. animistic thinking

anmistic thinking refers to a thought process that attributing a life to an inanimate object, (in the example above, marly speak like the car could experience an emotion). On adults, animistic thinking seems to be prevalent among followers of religion.