AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Object permanence describes a child’s ability to know that objects continue to exist even though they can no longer be seen or heard. If you have ever played a game of “peek-a-boo” with a very young child, then you probably understand how this works.

Detailed explanation-3: -2. The preoperational stage (2–7 years) During this stage, children build on object permanence and continue to develop abstract mental processes. This means they can think about things beyond the physical world, such as things that happened in the past.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jean Piaget, the Swiss psychologist who first studied object permanence in infants, argued that it is one of an infant’s most important accomplishments, as, without this concept, objects would have no separate, permanent existence.

Detailed explanation-5: -Object permanence is a fancy way of describing a very important cognitive skill. It means that your baby now can remember that even if he can’t see his ball or lovey, it still exists.