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Peer reviewedDeLoache, Judy S.; Burns, Nancy M. – Cognition, 1994
Twenty-four- and 30-month-old children were presented with a picture that showed the location of a hidden toy and were then asked to find the toy. The 30-month olds, but not the 24-month-olds, were successful in retrieving the toy. Concludes that 24-month olds did not interpret the pictures as representations of reality. (BC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Object Permanence, Pictorial Stimuli
Peer reviewedMelkman, Rachel; Rabinovitch, Liora – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Examined object concept development in 2- to 4-year olds with a partial replication of a study by Spelke and Kestenbaum (1986). Found that children judged identical entering and exiting figures as involving one object and different figures as involving two objects. Continuity of movement failed to affect judgments of numerical identity. Findings…
Descriptors: Motion, Object Permanence, Perceptual Development, Piagetian Theory
