The "violations of expectations" theory suggests that:
a. Piaget was right about the timing of the onset of object permanence.
b. infants' memory develops later than Piaget thought
c. if an event violates the rules of object permanence, infants will look at it longer.
d. infants like to track movement.
C.This method is based on the assumption that infants will look longer at an event that has violated their expectations, and if they look longer at an event violating the rule of object permanence this indicates some understanding of object permanence, without requiring any motor movements.
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A. Jean Piaget B. Lev Vygotsky C. Mary Ainsworth D. Harry Harlow
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false