A game of peek-a-boo with his dad excites William during his first six months of his life because he actually thinks his dad has disappeared. William lacks:
a. a sense of object permanence.
b. a theory of mind.
c. stranger anxiety.
d. egocentrism.

The boy is excited because he lacks a sense of object permanence, which means that the objects do not continue to exist unless we are seeing them. At that early age he ALSO lacks a theory of mind but option A is more adecuate to illustrate what is happening in the father-son game.

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A game of peek-a-boo with his dad excites William during his first six months of his life because he actually thinks his dad has disappeared. William lacks: a. a sense of object permanence. b. a theory of mind. c. stranger anxiety. d. egocentrism.

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A game of peek-a-boo with his dad excites William during his first six months of his life because he actually thinks his dad has disappeared. William lacks:
a. a sense of object permanence.
b. a theory of mind.
c. stranger anxiety.
d. egocentrism.