About the Book
This book consists of articles from Wikia. Pages: 107. Chapters: A-not-B error, Adolescence, Adolescent development, Adolescent psychology, Adolesence, Adult, Affectional bond, Affinity, Age differences, Aging, Attachment disorders, Attachment in adults, Attachment in children, Attachment measures, Attachment theory, Attachment Therapy, Auxology, Birth order, Breast feeding, Charles Zeanah, Child, Childhood, Childhood amnesia, Defining Issues Test, Developmental disabilities, Developmental stages, Developmental stage theories, Disinhibited attachment disorder, Dyadic developmental psychotherapy, Dysfunctional family, Fathers, Fraternal birth order and male sexual orientation, Freud's model of psychosexual development, Freudian psychosexual stages, Human vestigiality, Imaginary friend, Imprinting, Infantile amnesia, John Bowlby, Kohlberg's stages of moral development, Lawrence Kohlberg, Life-history theory, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Maternal deprivation, Michael Rutter, Mid-life crisis, Middle age, Milestones of infant and child development, Mirror stage, Mothers, National Children's Study, Observational learning, Only children, Parents, Physical development, Preadolescence, Professor Sir Michael Rutter, Psychological bonds, Psychosexual stages, Pubarche, Quarter-life crisis, Reactive attachment disorder, Social cognitive theory of morality, Social rejection, Socioemotional selectivity theory, Stages of faith development, Theraplay, Toddler, Transpersonal, Young adult, Youth, Zone of proximal development. Excerpt: A-not-B error is, in the theory of cognitive development of Jean Piaget, a particular error made by young children during substage 4 of their sensorimotor stage. The error is made by infants who have successfully uncovered a toy at location "A," and continue to reach to that location even after they watch the toy be moved in a nearby location "B." This demonstrates a lack of, or incomplete, object permanence. Traditionally this phenomenon has been ex...