Infants' understanding of physical phenomena: A perceptual hypothesis

Piaget (1953) believed object permanence emerges through a series of stages at approximately 18-months. Contemporary researchers have suggested infants achieve object permanence by 3.5-months. A series of studies by Baillargeon (1987) utilized a violation-of-expectation paradigm habituating infants...

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Main Author: Schilling, Thomas Harold
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1997
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9809397