A 10-month-old baby who looks for a hidden object in the first place he found it, rather than in the last place he saw it, is showing:
A) the A-not-B error.
B) pathological cognition.
C) faulty vision.
D) primary thinking.

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The behavior described is consistent with the A-not-B error, where infants have difficulty understanding that an object can be moved from one hiding place to another. Instead, they continue to look for the object in the first place they found it, even if they saw it move to a new hiding place. The other options are not applicable to the behavior described.

A 10-Month-Old Baby Who Looks for a Hidden Object in the First