hidden object
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhiddenandobject
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hidden
adjective[usually before noun]
uk/ˈhɪd.ən/us/ˈhɪd.ən/
not easy ...
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object
noun
uk/ˈɒb.dʒɪkt/us/ˈɑːb.dʒɪkt/
a thing that you can see or touch but that is not usually a living animal, plant, ...
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(Definition ofhiddenandobjectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Reaches are inaccurate only if the intention actually is to obtain thehiddenobject.
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They asked three- and four-year-old children to tell their parents how to find ahiddenobjectin a dollhouse.
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Our subjects were capable of utilizing both landmark and geometric cues in locating ahiddenobject, pointing to the sparing of their spatial cognition.
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Recent research has shown that infants do not have to be trained to reach for ahiddenobject.
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The results showed that infants older than 7.5 months of age reach correctly to thehiddenobjectafter delays averaging around 90 seconds.
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By 7.5 months of age, infants can recall the location of ahiddenobjectwith no practice trials.
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Typically, ahiddenobjecttask is used to manipulate a person's knowledge about the location of an object.
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Young infants' reasoning about the physical and spatial properties of ahiddenobject.
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Six-month-old children may not want to retrieve thehiddenobject; maybe they are interested only in having things that they can see.
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We asked all children to point where ahiddenobjectwas and where were rooms on the same floor in their homes.
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All the children who pointed to the location of thehiddenobjectpointed straight through the couch, rather than over the couch or crooking the finger to one side.
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In the epistemic task, they had to look for ahiddenobjectunder a red cup or a blue cup, opting for the stronger of the two modal verbs.
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Reactions of this type might be expected if children were attempting to recover thehiddenobject, especially given the frustration that could build up over a series of failures.
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It is more of a quest-like adventure than a traditionalhiddenobjectgame, a mixing of adventure and puzzle game.
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They had 30 seconds to find thehiddenobjectand score 25 points.
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Each correct answer andhiddenobjectfound in round 2 was worth double or 50 points.
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The clue cell marked red with value 1 does not have any remaining neighbor that can include ahiddenobject.
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Unlike a truehiddenobjectgame, the objects are in plain sight, and the challenge comes from deducing their relationship to the stage's keywords.
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The team was given 90 seconds to find ahiddenobjectin each of these six rooms.
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