Read each of the following examples and identify a cognitive concept (object con

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Read each of the following examples and identify a cognitive concept (object conservation, stranger anxiety, pretend play, egocentrism, theory of mind, abstract logic, etc.) from Piaget that explains the child's cognition. Please explain your answer 1. Although the parents spent $300 on holiday toys for their 1-year-old daughter, she spent more time playing peekaboo by sticking her head in and out of a box that one of the toys came in. Why should the parents have saved their money? A well-meaning aunt talked with her 9-month-old nephew about meeting her new boyfriend. However, when he saw the young man, the child shrieked unconsolably. "It must be his mustache!" the aunt thought. 2. 3. "Stop doing that!" screamed the exasperated mother in response to her infant's irritating habit of throwing his bottle from the high chair to the floor. She must have stooped over at least 20 times during this meal alone, and her child just wasn't learning! Why should the child's behavior not be surprising? An older brother and younger sister constantly fight when they are playing cards. No matter how many times the brother explains the rules to his sister, the sister spreads her 4.

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1. children of about eight or nine months of age develop object permanence or the awareness that objects continue to exist even when one cannot see them. It is likely that the child in this example was practicing her newly developed cognitive skill.
2. The child is only 9 months old, and it is likely that he is experiencing stranger anxiety. Anxiety around strangers is usually one of the first emotional milestones of children.
3. The child's behaviour is not surprising because his behaviour is being positively reinforced by the mother. In other words, he is receiving attention from her for throwing the bottle.
4. From this example, it appears that the sister lacks the ability to conserve. Conservation is acquired during middle childhood whereby children understand that physical quantities are unchanged, or conserved in the face of spatial or configurational transformations.
Please post the other questions separately as we are supposed to answer just one question or four sub parts of the same question.

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