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: -Object permanence is the awareness that an object continues to existeven when it is not in view. In young infants, when a toy is covered by a pieceof paper, the infant immediately stops and appears to lose interest in the toy(see figure above). This child has not yet mastered the concept of objectpermanence.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Object permanence is divided into six major stages according to its gradual development in humans (Piaget, 1954). At stage 4, human infants are able to mentally represent and retrieve an object hidden in a single hiding place.

Detailed explanation-5: -Object permanence is a major milestone in the first of four stages-sensorimotor stage. This stage marks the period between birth and age 2. During this stage, your baby learns to experiment and explore through movement and their senses, since they don’t yet understand symbols or abstract thought.