CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

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: -"Out of sight, out of mind” isn’t the same thing as object permanence. Many people with ADHD struggle with remembering simple tasks, like paying bills or responding to texts. This has been commonly attributed to the whole “out of sight, out of mind” ideology, which people correlate with the idea of object permanence.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Object permanence means knowing that an object still exists, even if it is hidden. It requires the ability to form a mental representation (i.e. a schema) of the object. For example, if you place a toy under a blanket, the child who has achieved object permanence knows it is there and can actively seek it.