Piaget Inhelder , 1999 /2001 . Animism Preoperational thought also reflects , to some degree , animism . Children have a tendency to attribute life o inanimate things - to those things that are useful to humans , such as furnaces , and do things that move around , such as automobiles (Piaget 1997 /2000 . Animistic thinking disappears only gradually . In later stages , children attribute life only to things that move spontaneously , such as the wind . Artificialism Artificialism is a third characteristic of preoperational thinking . Children have a tendency...











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