Question

After an 8-month-old successfully solved the object-under-the-blanket task several times, Piaget introduced a second blanket next to the first, showed the infant the object, and this time placed it under the second blanket. Infants at this age then looked for the object __________.

Answer 1

Object Permanence

Step-by-step explanation:

Object permanence refers to the ability of a child to develop the mental representation (i.e. a schema) that an object is still in existence even when they are hidden and no more at sight. This concept was proposed by psychologist Jean Piaget in his theory of cognitive development, where he argued that children possesses this ability from birth to about age two during their sensorimotor stage of development