Young infants cannot appreciate the carnival game in which a pea seems to disappear from under a walnut because they have not yet developed a sense of:
a) conservation.
b) object permanence.
c) accommodation.
d) egocentrism.
ANS: B, Object permanence is a term used to describe understanding that an object exists even when it is out of sight
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