Piaget suggested that the most important cognitive acquisition of the infancy period of cognitive development is the ability to form mental representations of absent objects—those objects with which the infant is not in direct sensorimotor contact

This ability is called

a. object permanence.
b. centration.
c. assimilation.
d. accommodation.

Answer: a. object permanence.

Psychology

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