Question

Five-month-old Eric picks up his mother's keys and begins to put them in his mouth. His mother takes the keys away from Eric, and he begins to cry. However, as soon as she puts the keys out of sight behind her back, Eric stops crying and becomes interested in something else. This story demonstrates Eric's lack of ________

Answer 1

Answer: Object permanence

Explanation: Object permanence is the mechanism that describes about the fact that the objects and things will exist and events will take place in environment even though if it cannot be sensed or perceived.

Erick does not display the quality of understanding the object permanence.He is interested in the keys till he can see it and would cry for it when its taken away from it.

As soon as keys are hidden from him,he gets involved into something else and stop crying thinking that it gone or doesn't exist anymore .Thus, he is not aware that keys exist in the hidden manner.