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"Where the hell did he go? Class is over,"
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that would show a lack of object permanence.
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So, adults have object permanence.
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Piaget's very interesting claim is that kids don't.
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Before six-month-olds, Piaget observed,
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you take an object the kid likes like a rattle,
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you hide it, you put it behind something,
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it's like it's gone.
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And he claimed
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the child really thinks
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it's just gone.
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Things don't continue to exist