Piaget Object Permanence

Tifany Tran
10/2/15
Out of sight, but NOT out of mind The central issue of the article is about the study of object permanence in infants by Jean Piaget. Object permanence is the idea that things continue to exist even when they cannot be seen. When Piaget worked at the Alfred Binet Laboratory, he was interested in seeing how infants of the same ages made similar errors in the experiment. He concluded that older children think differently and learn more comparing to younger ones. Piaget proposed that throughout childhood, individuals move from the four stages of cognitive development in chronological order and at about the same ages. Furthermore, he argued that object permanence is an important concept because infants cannot solve problem and develop inner thoughts without it. Piaget used the unstructured evaluation methods to study object permanence by playing games with his three children. He classified the six stages to the development of

The result also shows that the six stages of object permanence apply to all the children around the world disregarding their cultural backgrounds. Piaget also stated that all infants must pass each state in chronological order before they can move on to the next stage. The ages identified with each stage are estimation because it was difficult to predict age ranges accurately since only three children participated in the study. In fact, the changes between each stage develop over time, and the errors that children often made decrease over time as they became more intellectually mature. It is very normal for children to acquire certain behaviors from the previous and later stages at the same time. In addition, the behaviors in the previous stages do not completely vanish as the child moves on to a different