Olivia, 3-year-old girl, loves to play with her toy train. She names it Max and takes it with her everywhere. One day, while drinking milk, she spills the milk on the floor. To avoid being scolded, Olivia tells her mother that Max has spilled the milk. Another day, she blames Max for soiling her dress. In the context of cognitive development in early childhood, this scenario illustrates the concept of:.

Animism

Explanation:

Animism  is defined as belief that object, places, creatures and other things persist spirit or soul in them .Children tend to think that object is alive and has feelings or emotion like humans .Toys, dolls, teddy bears are the objects that can be inanimate by children.

According to the question, concept of animism is applied in the scenario where Olivia is blaming toy train for spilling milk and damaging her dress.She is in-animating her toy train by giving it a name and playing with it as if it is as human with feelings.

Animism

Explanation:

Animism is an innumerable spiritual thought that is related to the affairs of a human being. This is surveyed by Sir Edward Burnett Taylor. It is believed that very fewer people are animistic. Most including the tribal peoples in animism concern, because they have ethnographic animism, was understandable. The understanding of animism is depended on the field studies that are not less important than theoretical perspective.  

Thus here Olivia a three year -old girl, loves to play with her toy train. She takes her toys everywhere and she gives name to it as Max. One day she spilled milk on the floor but to prevent it from scold, she told that Max has spilled milk all over. This is the concept of Animism.  

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