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Mental Representation

A mental representation is an internal idea of an object, person, or event that remains available when it is not directly perceived.

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Object Permanence and Early Thinking

Object Permanence and Early Thinking

What Object Permanence Means Object permanence refers to the understanding that an object or person continues to exist when it cannot currently be seen, heard, or touched. For an infant, this is a major shift from responding primarily to immediate sensory information toward maintaining an internal representation of something that is absent from the current […]