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The developmental stage in which a normal child, at about age two, learns to retain images it does not see.  2, record 1, English, - object%20permanence

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... Piaget ... noted there is a stage at which children begin to grasp the concept of object permanence: Before the developmental transition, a toy does not exist once it is removed from the child's sight. Afterward, the toy exists - and the child will look for it - even when it is no longer visible.  3, record 1, English, - object%20permanence

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A critical aspect of a child's development of what Piaget calls the object concept is the notion of its permanence. Specifically, the reference here is to the awareness that a physical object is permanent that it continues to exist even when the child no longer interacts with it.  4, record 1, English, - object%20permanence

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Object permanence develops during the sensorimotor period of Piaget's stages of child development.  4, record 1, English, - object%20permanence

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

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