DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
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Question
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Infants simply have less information about the world than older children and adults.
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Object permanence develops earlier than Piaget believed.
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Infants learn more by verbal explanations than Piaget believed.
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Accommodation is a process that doesn’t occur in young children.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following is a current belief of researchers that differs from Piaget’s original theories? Object permanence develops earlier than Piaget believed.
Detailed explanation-2: -Object permanence involves understanding that items and people still exist even when you can’t see or hear them. This concept was discovered by child psychologist Jean Piaget and is an important milestone in a baby’s brain development.
Detailed explanation-3: -Contradicting evidence In more recent years, the original Piagetian object permanence account has been challenged by a series of infant studies suggesting that much younger infants do have a clear sense that objects exist even when out of sight.
Detailed explanation-4: -Piaget claims that children don’t develop object permanence until around 8 months of age, whereas Baillargeon believes that children have this understanding much earlier. At twelve months of age, James is classified as securely attached.