Elizabeth
Spelke proposed that children are born with knowledge of fundamental physical properties
for making sense of everyday events.
Children are born with the knowledge of:
Ø continuity
Ø solidity
Her experiments have
shown that children at such young ages show a comprehension of properties for objects.
She has also shown that infants younger than four months can understand that objects continue to exist even when they
move through one another.
For
example: a large object behind a screen, the object towers over it.
