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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

As children exit infancy into childhood, their thinking is still primitive. Although children may be able to perceive objects and to use mental representations to make reasonable inferences about the world they still do not think logically … Preschool children may believe that anything that moves is in some way alive. The tendency to attribute life to non-living things is referred to as "animism". Preschoolers may also believe that everything in the natural world was "constructed" by someone else ("artificialism").  2, record 1, English, - artificialism

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Démarche de l’enfant, entre 3 et 7 ans, par laquelle il attribue les éléments et les phénomènes naturels à l’action de l’homme ou à celle d’un être imaginaire qui œuvrerait comme un homme.  2, record 1, French, - artificialisme

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish