Object Permanence

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The purpose of this study was to find out if they know and understand what object permanence in two phases that the participants go through (Baillargeon, 1986). According to Renee Baillargeon (1986), there were two ways the young infant’s participants would be test; first experiment would be the ability to show the presence and location of a hidden object, and second one would be the ability to show the trajectory of a hidden moving object (Baillargeon, 1986). There was a total of 40 participants, young infants, around the age of 6 to 8 months old (Baillargeon, 1986). In this experiment, there was a wooden track and a box that and there was a navy and the celling’s where white and yellow car (Baillargeon, 1986). In addition, in order to

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