CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Months 18-24: Object Permanence Example: Putting a toy under a box and the baby removing the box to get the toy that they know is under the box. An infant sucking on their hand is an example of the object permanence substage primary circular reaction.

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.