Audio: Object Permanence - Does Your Dog Have It? Episode 150
b'Piaget\'s concept of object permanence is essential to understand.\\xa0 But how did they study this idea among 1 year olds?\\xa0 Obviously children can\'t tell you that they believe that something no longer exists when they can\'t see it, so how do we know what is going on inside a child\'s mind?\\xa0 How about this challenge: do animals also understand object permanence?\\xa0 If you\'ve ever seen your cat or dog look under or around objects for a lost toy then yes - you\'ve seen that they do understand object permanence. How can you study object permanence - or a related idea called "expectancy violation" - in animals?\\xa0 Let\'s take a look in this 150 episode of The Psych Files.'