Question

Luke is playing with a bouncing ball in his playpen when it accidentally bounces out of the playpen and rolls under a nearby chair. Luke tries to get his mother to retrieve his ball by pointing in the direction of where the ball? went under the chair. What would Jean Piaget say Luke's behavior illustrates?

Answer 1

Answer:

c) mental representation.

Explanation:

The options for this question are missing. The options are:

a) mental manipulation.

b) attention.

c) mental representation.

d) scheme

According to Piaget, kids go through different stages in their cognitive development. During his second year of life, and during the sensorimotor stage, children become able to form mental representations of objects, in other words, they know that objects keep existing even if they are out of sight and can create mental representations of them and imagine things even when they don't see them. This is a milestone in children development because they achieve object permanence (realizing things don't cease to exist just because they are out of their sight).

In this example, Luke is playing with a ball and it rolls under a nearby chair. Luke tries to get his mother to retrieve his ball by pointing in the direction of where the ball went under the chair. We can see that Luke has a mental representation of the ball and he knows where the ball is even though it is out of his sight, therefore, this behavior illustrates mental representation.