Baillargeon and Her Colleagues Concluded from Their Research That 4-Month-Old

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Essay

Baillargeon and her colleagues concluded from their research that 4-month-old infants can mentally represent objects that are out of view. Describe in detail how they arrived at this conclusion based on the finding that infants looked longer at a screen rotating its full 180 degrees than they did at a screen rotating only as far as a hidden block and then stopping.

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