Explain how Jean Piaget noted an interesting error known as the A-not-B error. Do infants show the A-not-B error under all circumstances?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Piaget noted an interesting error known as the A-not-B error. He repeatedly hid a toy behind a screen (A), and each time, his infant removed the screen and retrieved the toy. Then, as the infant watched, Piaget hid the toy behind another screen (B) in a different place. Still, the infant tried to recover the toy by pushing aside the first screen (A). It is as though the child had learned that a certain motor activity would reinstate the missing toy. The child's concept of the object did not, at this age, extend to recognition that objects usually remain in the place where they have been most recently mentally represented.Under certain conditions, nine- to ten-month-old infants do not show the A-not-B error. They apparently need a certain degree of maturation of the front lobes of the cerebral cortex, which fosters the development of working memory and attention (Cuevas & Bell, 2010). Also, if infants are allowed to search for the object immediately after seeing it hidden, the error often does not occur.
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