Peekaboo

<h2 id="object-permanence">Object permanence</h2>

<p>Peekaboo is thought by <a href="/facts/Developmental_psychology/Myy826TQ">developmental psychologists</a> to demonstrate an infant's inability to understand <a href="/facts/Object_permanence/lB8jA0Jh">object permanence</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> Object permanence is an important stage of <a href="/facts/Infant_cognitive_development/zDnrGhhz">cognitive development for infants</a>. In early <a href="/facts/Sensorimotor_stage/2BfVnk1s">sensorimotor stages</a>, the infant is completely unable to comprehend object permanence. Psychologist <a href="/facts/Jean_Piaget/gQQBtbCU">Jean Piaget</a> conducted experiments with infants which led him to conclude that this awareness was typically achieved at eight to nine months of age.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> He said that infants before this age are too young to understand object permanence. A lack of object permanence can lead to <a href="/facts/A-not-B_error/xPr7j5kW">A-not-B errors</a>, where children reach for a thing at a place where it should not be.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Hide-and-seek/HzlmamLw">Hide-and-seek</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_children%2527s_games/pU22L6l0">List of children's games</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Bruner, J. S. & Sherwood, V. (1976). "Peek-a-boo and the learning of rule structures". In Bruner, J.; Jolly, A. & Sylva, K. (eds.). <i>Play: Its Role in Development and Evolution</i>. Middlesex: Penguin. pp. 277–287. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-14-081126-5.</li></ul>
<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Stafford, Tom (April 18, 2014). "Why All Babies Love Peekaboo". BBC. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140417-why-all-babies-love-peekaboo" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140417-why-all-babies-love-peekaboo</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Nomikou, Iris; Leonardi, Giuseppe; Radkowska, Alicja; Rączaszek-Leonardi, Joanna; Rohlfing, Katharina J. (2017-10-10). "Taking Up an Active Role: Emerging Participation in Early Mother–Infant Interaction during Peekaboo Routines". Frontiers in Psychology. 8: 1656. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01656. ISSN 1664-1078. PMC 5641350. PMID 29066985. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5641350" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5641350</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"PsycNET". psycnet.apa.org. Retrieved 2019-08-13. <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1999-05934-006" target="_blank">https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1999-05934-006</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Mayers, David (2011). Exploring Psychology. New York, NY: Worth. ISBN 978-1-4292-1635-7. <a href="978-1-4292-1635-7" target="_blank">978-1-4292-1635-7</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Wellman, Henry M.; et al. (1986), "Infant Search and Object Permanence: A Meta-Analysis of the A-Not-B Error.", Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 51 (3): i-67, doi:10.2307/1166103, JSTOR 1166103, PMID 3683418 <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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