While sitting in her playpen, four-month-old Kiko watches her cat knock a lamp off a dresser. As the lamp begins to fall, Kiko seems to know that the lamp will drop straight to the floor. This knowledge appears to indicate that Kiko instinctively understands
a. Piagetian laws of object permanence.
b. Skinnerian laws of reinforcement.
c. Newtonian laws of object motion.
d. Freudian laws of ego formation.
c
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