Delays, lack of resources, losses, and failures as sources of ________

Between ages 4 and 8, children's magical beliefs decline as they

A) gain familiarity with physical events and principles. B) understand that television characters are not real. C) begin to ascribe supernatural causes only to events they can explain. D) become less likely to confuse fiction with reality.

The inability of the young child to grasp the fact that his or her view of the world, both literally and figuratively, may be but one of many is known as

a. animism. c. egocentrism. b. conservation. d. intellectual realism.