ANIMISTIC THINKING

NAQIAH PUAAD
ILLI NURASHIKIN
FARHANA ABDUL
MANAF
ELLIPSE GOH HORNG
SHEN
KU NAZURAH HUSNA

How does a young child

perceive the world?
Piaget provides a brief overview of the childs
conception of reality.
Piaget used one of his favoured techniques
simply questioning children about themselves
and their views on nature, adults, and other
objects and events in their daily lives as seen
from their point of view.

From these interviews, he and his colleagues

identified characteristics of young childrens
thinking and how the childs conceptions of
reality differ from those of older children and
adults.
He identified three important concepts in
childrens thought which he termed realism,
animism, and artificialism.
(James
Fleming,2004)

According to Piaget, egocentrism of the

young child in preoperational stage leads
them to believe that everyone thinks as they
do.
This leads to the child believing that nature
is alive, and controllable and that the whole
world shares their feelings and desires.
This is a concept of egocentrism known as
"animism", the most characteristic of
egocentric thought.

Relationship to
Egocentricity
All three concepts realism, animism, and
artificialism clearly reflect the young childs
egocentric perceptions of the world.
In the case of animism, the child believes that
other objects, people, or animals, all function
in the same way as he or she does.

ANIMISM

THE
DEFINIT
ION

Animism
Refers to the attribution of human
characteristics such as feelings, thoughts,
actions, and intentions, to non-living
objects.
Objects that move, such as clouds, the
sun and moon, or toy trains and trucks, all
may be given such attributes by young
children.

PREOPERATIONAL
THINKING

ANALY
SIS

PREOPERATIONAL STAGE
RESPONDENT 1
4 Years Old
1.Ghost (hantu)
Bring toys
transformers
Feel pain & cry
2.Rain
. Grasshopper - Buy
toys

PREOPERATIONAL STAGE
RESPONDENT 2
5 years old
1.Raining
. Sky is sad
2. Plant
. Cry
. Sad
3.Pig
Smile (happy)
The pig throw water
back to Jun Hong

CONCRETE
OPERATIONAL THINKING

ANALY
SIS

The concrete operational

stages thinking
The concrete operational stage begins
around age 7-11.
During this time, children gain a better
understanding of mental operations. Children
begin thinking logically about concrete
events, but have difficulty understanding
abstract or hypothetical concepts.

Piaget (1954) considered the concrete stage

a major turning point in the child's cognitive
development, because it marks the beginning
of logical or operational thought.

CONCRETE OPERATIONAL STAGE

RESPONDENT 1
8 Years Old
1.Rain
Hot
2.Who makes you very hot
Sun
3.Plant
Did not cry
Need water to grow
4. Toy
Can not move
Not real thing (non-living
things)

CONCRETE OPERATIONAL STAGE

RESPONDENT 2
9 Years Old
1.Plant
. Need water to grow
. No water Die
2.Doll
. Did not feel sad
. Can not cry Not
human