You are visiting your sister and she has a four-year-old daughter. You have not been around young children much, except for your niece, and you are fascinated by her. You notice while she plays, she acts as if her dolls are real and alive

While having a tea party, her doll requests sugar to put in its teacup, and your niece gladly obliges. You ask your niece why her doll likes so much sugar in her tea, and your niece replies, "Because I like my tea sweet." When your niece responded "Because I like my tea sweet" while speaking for her doll, it is clear that she is demonstrating ______.
egocentrism
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reversibility
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a personal fable
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assimilation
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egocentrism

Psychology

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________ refers to the condition in which media violence reduces emotional arousal while watching violence

a. Counterconditioning b. Extinction c. Punishment d. Cognitive mapping e. Psychic numbing

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