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) centration.
D) egocentrism.
E) reversibility

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Object permanence is the understanding that an object continues to exist even if it is not visible to the observer. This means that young infants do not yet have the ability to track the movement of an object, like a pea under a walnut, because they have not yet developed object permanence. Conservation (A) is the understanding that the amount of an object remains the same even if its appearance changes. Centration (C) is the tendency to focus on only one aspect of a situation and ignore others. Egocentrism (D) is the inability to take another person's point of view. Reversibility (E) is the understanding that a process can be reversed to restore the original state. None of these concepts are directly related to the infant's inability to appreciate the carnival game.

Young Infants Cannot Appreciate the Carnival Game in Which a Pea