AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -If you’ve ever played peekaboo with your little one, you’ve helped them work on object permanence. Your baby is learning that people and objects exist even when they can’t see or hear them. Object permanence is one of the development milestones that your infant will learn during their first year of life.

Detailed explanation-2: -Object permanence is the concept that objects continue to exist even when they’re not in sight. Early on, babies don’t yet have the cognitive skills to understand that what they can’t see still exists. For young infants, the world around them contains only what they can see in front of them at any given moment.

Detailed explanation-3: -What does playing Peek-A-Boo accomplish? Peek-a-boo is a game that helps develop object permanence, which is part of early learning. Object permanence is an understanding that objects and events continue to exist, even when they cannot directly be seen, heard, or touched.

Detailed explanation-4: -Peek-a-boo games help parent and baby bond with each other playfully. Playing peek-a-boo develops baby’s language, thinking, social and emotional skills. They learn that playing with people is fun. As you appear and disappear they learn people are permanent i.e. they still exist even when you can’t see them.

Detailed explanation-5: -Understanding object permanence signals an important development in an infant’s working memory, as it means they can now form, and retain, a mental representation of an object. It also marks the beginning of a baby’s understanding of abstract concepts.