PSYC 251 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Jean Piaget, Object Permanence, Motor Skill
25 Oct 2016
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The understanding that objects con"t to excit even when they are out of one"s view. Piaget believed infants fail the object permanence task at age until about 8 months of age: before 8 months, infants do not realise hidden objects still exist. Perhaps more of a difficulty w action planning. Infants will reach in dark for an object (if paired w sound) and will reach w appropriate grasp: sound indicates that the object is still present in the dark. Video: the a-not-b error (succeeds after 12 months) Child easily finds object under hiding place a. Child watches it being hidden at hiding place b and exhibits frustration while its being hidden. Even though children may seem like reasonable being they still make large logical errors due to their inability to take into account several aspects of a problem at once.
