You have been fortunate in that your nephew was born a few months before you began your developmental course. You remember some of your nephew's interesting behaviours. He has now mastered object permanence, and as you watch him, you remember that in class you discussed that object permanence is also a good measure of ____.

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Object permanence is the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they are not visible. This is a measure of short-term memory because it shows that the child can hold the image of an object in their mind even when it's no longer visible. It does not necessarily indicate development in long-term memory, episodic memory, or semantic memory.

You Have Been Fortunate in That Your Nephew Was Born