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Baillargeon's Findings on Infant Object Understanding
Researchers have found that even very young children understand objects and how they work long before they have experience with those objects. For example, children as young as 3 months old demonstrated knowledge of the properties of objects that they had only viewed and did not have prior experience with them (Baillargeon, 1987; Baillargeon, Li, Gertner, & Wu, 2011).
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A researcher is observing a group of 5-year-old children in a classroom setting over a period of six months. Which of the following observations provides the clearest evidence of a change specifically within the cognitive domain of development?
Piaget's View on Infant Object Understanding
Baillargeon's Findings on Infant Object Understanding