An experiment by Bower and Wishart (1972) involving a transparent cup ruled out which of the following accounts of object permanence?
a. infants lack the necessary coordination to retrieve an object that is placed under a container
b. infants do not understand that an object continues to exist when it is hidden
c. infants' representations of hidden objects are not strong enough to elicit reaching behaviors
d. none of the above
A
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