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    It is not the case that Piaget's sensorimotor account holds that object permanence and physical knowledge are constructed through action-perception cycles, not innately represented.

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    • 1.Violation-of-expectation studies show infants as young as 2.5 months display surprise at impossible object movements, suggesting pre-existing physical understanding.
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    • 2.Object permanence deficits in infants with motor impairments are motor execution failures, not conceptual gaps, implying the knowledge precedes sensorimotor skill.
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    • 3.The universality and timing of object permanence across all human cultures suggests innate constraints guiding development, not pure construction from action.
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    • 1.Infants show progressive mastery of object permanence over months, not sudden competence, suggesting active construction rather than innate knowledge.
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    • 2.Cross-cultural studies reveal infants raised with different sensorimotor environments develop object permanence at different rates, supporting experiential construction.
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    • 3.Neural plasticity evidence shows motor cortex development correlates with cognitive milestones, indicating action-based learning scaffolds knowledge formation.
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