Five-year-old Rebecca plays a game on her iPad in which she needs to tap on all red-colored objects that appear on the screen and ignore objects of other colors. At the end of every game, an animated character of a girl appears to congratulate Rebecca. When asked who the character is, Rebecca says that it is a girl who lives inside the screen and watches her games. This illustrates

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Rebecca's belief that the animated character is a girl who lives inside the screen and watches her games is an example of animism, which is the attribution of life and consciousness to inanimate objects, a common thought process in early childhood development.

Five-Year-Old Rebecca Plays a Game on Her IPad in Which