05:300:306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Object Permanence, Animism, Intentionality
23 Mar 2017
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Piaget claimed that understanding of objects develops slowly, taking many months to be complete however, other investigators have used procedures to show that babies understand objects much earlier. 4 and 1/2 months olds looked longer at the unrealistic event than the realistic event thought it was novel and fascinating. Infants have some understanding of object permanence early in the first year of life. Infants are indeed an accomplished na ve physicist infants expect unsupported objects to fall, elementary children know about gravity and physics students know that the force of gravity. Not until the preschool years do children understand ownership that people can acquire objects by receiving them as gifts, by buying them, or by creating them. Knowledge of living things begins in infancy, when babies first distinguish animate objects (e. g. people, insects, other animals) Infants and toddlers use motion to identify animate objects.
