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What is object permanence?

What is object permanence? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (psychology) The understanding (typically developed during early infancy) that an object still exists even when it disappears from sight, or other senses.
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The baby, like many a great philosopher, is highly dubious of object permanence, or even objectivity for that matter.
The child who is blind may demonstrate this early knowledge of object permanence when part of an object is touched by some part of his or her body.
They'd been going over the concepts of object permanence and keratin growth almost nightly, and she really thought Jim had it down by now.
A new parent might cherry-pick a lecture on infant development to learn about object permanence, the understanding that things you can no longer see still exist.
Piaget's investigations into the origins of object permanence, number, geometry and time provide the foundations of Dr. Spelke's research.

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