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Infants really enjoy peek-a-boo –– the game where parents hide their face with their hand and then suddenly remove their hands from their face and say, "peek-a-boo!" For Piaget, this would be a good example of how infants lack: a. reversibility b. theory of mind c. object permanence d. centration e. conservation

Answer 1

c. object permanence

Explanation:

• The word "object permanence" defines a child's ability  to realize that,although objects cannot be seen/heard, they do exist. In the theory of "cognitive development" created by "Jean Piaget", the principle of "object  permanence" plays an important role. The infant should first create a "mental representation" of the object & realise that objects still remain in nature even though they are not seen.
• According to Piaget, there is a natural progression in the development of object permanence. First, when children comprehend "partial visible displacement". That is, a child sees any object that is partially covered up. However for the child that object does not look the same and as such the object does not exist for it (as it is not the same as the object the child saw when the object was not hidden)
• Then, the child understands is "total visible displacement". That is, when we cover the object entirely, the does not search/look for it, however, simply crawls off & does something else.The last step in the object permanence development is the "invisible displacement", where you hide the object when the child is "not watching", so the child does not actually see the object being moved. Here the child shows object permanence and starts looking out for the object.
• Piaget was of the view that children unhappy that the object  had gone did not have a sense of "object permanence", whereas those who had searched for the object achieved this stage of development. In Piaget’s experiments, this tended to occur around the age of 8 to 9 months. The child  acquire complete "object permanence" around 18 months.

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