Question

Baby luke is playing with a bouncing ball in his playpen, and accidentally the ball bounces out of the playpen and rolls under a nearby chair. Luke tries to get his mother to retrieve his ball by pointing in the direction of where the ball went under the chair. Piaget would say this is an example of a

Answer 1

Smartness of the baby

Answer 2

mental representation

Step-by-step explanation:

Mental representation is the symbol created by the person which is hypothetical but is symbolic of the external reality. It is that process of mind that helps in creating symbols that are not in reality exposed to the senses. These representations help in building pictures of the things which were never experienced before.