Rebecca is very distracted by her toy bunny when her mother is trying to get her dressed in the morning, so her mother takes the bunny and puts it behind the couch pillow. Rebecca crawls over to the couch and moves the pillow to get the bunny. According to Piaget, what cognitive advance has Rebecca developed?

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Abject permanence is the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight. Rebecca's ability to search for and retrieve her toy bunny from behind the pillow demonstrates this cognitive advance. The other options (B, C, and D) do not apply to this scenario.

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