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A-not-B error: a standalone construct

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A-not-Berror1 CONSTRUCTA-not-B errorSMITH · COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

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Cognitive development

infants' tendency, after finding a hidden object at location A, to keep searching at A when it is visibly hidden at B, explained as a dynamic of reaching history.

In cognitive development, A-not-B error refers to infants' tendency, after finding a hidden object at location A, to keep searching at A when it is visibly hidden at B, explained as a dynamic of reaching history. This meaning comes from Smith (1999) in Psychological Review.[1]

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  1. Smith, L. B., Thelen, E., Titzer, R., & McLin, D. (1999). Knowing in the context of acting: The task dynamics of the A-not-B error. Psychological Review, 106(2), 235-260. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.106.2.235

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