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Peer reviewedBradley, Ben S. – Human Development, 1996
Suggests that Greenberg's challenge to the centrality of object permanence in developmental thinking reveals that developmentalists' theories about childhood speak about their own self-images. Notes that developmentalists have been guilty of not only the object permanence fallacy but also the genetic fallacy, or the mistaken belief that describing…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Developmental Psychology
