“Object permanence is the awareness that an object continues to exist even when it is not in view”. Once object permanence is developed, peek-a-boo is no longer as exciting to infants because he or she knows the person covering his or her face is still present in the room and has not disappeared. My brother tells me about how when I was a baby he would hide one of my toys behind his back and I would just look at him and did not try to look for the toy to get it back. This is an example of before I had developed object permanence because I just assumed the toy disappeared. He also told me that when I was about one year old, he hid one of my toys behind his back just like before, but this time I knew it still existed and searched for the toy behind my brother’s back and found the toy. At that age, I had already developed object permanence and learned that the toy did not actually
“Object permanence is the awareness that an object continues to exist even when it is not in view”. Once object permanence is developed, peek-a-boo is no longer as exciting to infants because he or she knows the person covering his or her face is still present in the room and has not disappeared. My brother tells me about how when I was a baby he would hide one of my toys behind his back and I would just look at him and did not try to look for the toy to get it back. This is an example of before I had developed object permanence because I just assumed the toy disappeared. He also told me that when I was about one year old, he hid one of my toys behind his back just like before, but this time I knew it still existed and searched for the toy behind my brother’s back and found the toy. At that age, I had already developed object permanence and learned that the toy did not actually