The nurse is caring for a 5-year-old girl following a tonsillectomy. The girl looks out the window and tells the nurse that it is raining: "The sky is crying because it is sad that my throat hurts
" The nurse understands that the girl is demonstrating which mental process? A) Magical thinking
B) Centration
C) Transduction
D) Animism
A
Response:
The girl is demonstrating magical thinking, a normal part of preschool development. The preschool-age child believes his or her thoughts to be all-powerful. Transduction is reasoning by viewing one situation as the basis for another situation, whether or not the two are truly causally linked. Animism is attributing life-like qualities to inanimate objects. Centration is focusing on one aspect of a situation while neglecting others.
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