Discussion
Four-year-old Aparna says that a button is alive because it helps tie her shirt together. According to Jean Piaget, her thinking is characterized by :
Answer: B
Aparna's thinking is animistic thinking.
Animism is the pre-operational child's belief that inanimate objects are alive and have intentions or feelings. Treating a button as alive because it 'helps' to tie her shirt is a clear example, typical of the age range (about 2 to 7) Piaget described.
Transductive reasoning links two particular events as cause and effect; centration is focusing on one feature of a situation; hypothetico-deductive thinking is the systematic hypothesis testing of the formal operational stage. None describes treating an object as alive.
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