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= Definition: = Sub stage 4 infants' tendency to look for an object in the place where it was last seen (Position A) rather than in the place to which they have seen a researcher move it (Position B). HGD Chapter 5, p. 124 Related pages: Object Permanence p. 123 Primary Circular Reactions p. 122

= Examples: = An infant sees keys in his/her mother's left hand. The mother moves the keys to her right hand but the infants continue to search for the keys in her left hand.

= Analogies: = An analogy of this could be compared to a magic trick. For a magician to pull of a trick, he must make you see something and then move it, and still make you think that the object is still in its original place. It makes you search for the object that you think is in its original place when really its in a totally different place.

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