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What do recent studies add to Piaget's 'object permanence'? The work of Jean Piaget and the development of his sensori-motor intelligence stage theory (1952, 1954) is said to have initiated a great deal of research within the area of cognitive development in infancy. Piaget believed that the infant was born without an intellectual structure,but possessed the innate ability to react with the world in quite specific ways in order to allow the infant to construct an understanding of it. His theory was based on the biological concept of adaptation, the notion that organisms are continually changing to adapt with their environment. Piaget believed that infants learned about the world through assimilation and accommodation , which basically means that when an infant encounters a new object or event it attempts to fit it into existing actions or schema's, this is known as accommodation. However if this new object or event will not...

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