Five-year-old Linus is playing with his baby sister, Lucy. He takes Lucy's teddy bear and hides it behind a pillow while Lucy watches. Lucy quickly finds the bear. Then Linus puts teddy in a bag, puts the bag behind a chair (where he dumps teddy), and then brings out the empty bag. Lucy looks inside the bag, but doesn't look for teddy behind the chair and is surprised when it is not there
According to Piaget, Lucy
a. lacks object permanence.
b. is playing to an imaginary audience.
c. is committing the A not B error.
d. is a formal operational thinker.
c
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