Varying the Time Before Infants Are Allowed to Search for an Object

question 146

Multiple Choice

Varying the time before infants are allowed to search for an object in Piaget's A-not-B task had which of the following results?

• A) Seven-month-old children were not able to locate the object even when given an immediate opportunity to do so.
• B) Nine-month-old infants could withstand a delay of 5 seconds before beginning to make errors.
• C) Twelve-month-old infants successfully found the object even after several minutes delay.
• D) Infants of all ages made errors if their search was delayed by even a few seconds.

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Definitions:

Generalized Judgments

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Heredity

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