Kiana Vren Jermia, BSN 2D

Checkpoint Question

1. When would an infant be ready to play peek-a-boo?

As I have researched, I gathered information from whattoexpect.com that there is

not necessarily a perfect age peekaboo for an infant to play peek-a-boo. It
sometimes varies from the early third month, fourth month or even on the tenth
month. However, it has been observable that object recognition begins around
month four, and babies come to recognize the idea of object permanence by month
eight wherein it is a part of early learning. As time will pass by, your baby should be
able to play peekaboo on her own by months 9 to 12.

2.  What does it mean when a child develops object permanence?

Object permanence is an understanding that objects and events continue to exist,

even when they cannot directly be seen, heard, or touched. Most infants develop
this concept between 6 months and a year old.

Infants would be able to obtain understanding that objects and events continue to
exist, even when they cannot directly be seen, heard, or touched. For instance, in
order for us to determine if object permanence was present in a certain child, we
would show a toy to an infant before hiding it or taking it away. In this test, we
would hide a toy under a blanket and then observe to see if the infant would search
for the object.

At the latter some of the infants would appear confused or upset by the loss of sight
of the toy, while other infants would instead look for it. It then proves the children
who were upset that the toy was gone lacked the understanding of object
permanence, while those who searched for the toy had reached this developmental
milestone.