Animism is often a major idea or thought which is developed in a child preooperational stage according to paiget's theory of cognitive development where a child's learning is driven and derived from by symbols. At this stage, a child often relates with their toys, and other inanimate objects they come across as though they were real, manipulating and transforming them to form different things including relating with these manipulated objects like they were living. This is because at this stage, a child cannot use cognitive or logic to make distinctions.
