One day during a rainstorm, 4-year-old Isaiah comments to his mother, "The sky is very sad today. We have to do something fun to make it happy again!" Isaiah's belief that it rains because the sky is sad is an example of

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Isaiah's belief that the sky is capable of feeling emotions and therefore causing rain is an example of animistic thinking, which is a common cognitive bias among young children who tend to attribute consciousness to things that are not actually alive. Dual representation refers to the ability to understand an object as both a physical entity and a symbol, egocentrism is the tendency to view the world solely from one's own perspective, and centration is the tendency to focus on a single, salient aspect of a problem and neglect others.

One Day During a Rainstorm, 4-Year-Old Isaiah Comments to His