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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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1997
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9809397 |