The infant's theory of self-propelled objects.
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Summary
The theory I describe here, the infant assigns a high priority to changes in motion and divides the world into two kinds of objects on the basis of this criterion: Those that are and those that are not self-propelled.
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- article
- Published
- 1990-07-01
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- 579
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Keywords
Psychology, Object (grammar), Denial, Perception, Object permanence
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