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Sensorimotor Period

The sensorimotor period is Piaget's stage when infants learn about the world primarily through perception and physical actions.

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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 […]