If a ball that a five-month-old infant is playing with rolls under a chair (and out of sight), the infant will not look for it. Piaget believed that this occurs because the infant

a. does not understand the concept of roll.
b. has a short attention span.
c. has not developed conservation.
d. has not developed object permanence.


D

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