Abstract
2- to 4 1 2 -year-olds were tested on an invisible displacement task in which the goal was to find a toy ball that was dropped down one of potentially three opaque tubes that could be interwoven to produce a visuospatial maze. Performance on the task was significantly related to the number of tubes with older children solving configurations with more tubes than younger children. When transparent tubes were used, children found the ball but this success did not transfer back to opaque trials. In addition to the relation between performance on the task and age, a significant phenomenon was discovered in that errors were consistently directed to the location directly below the last seen position of the ball. The developmental trend may reflect both a partial understanding of the contingency between tubes and hiding locations as well as an increase in the ability to overcome the prepotent response to search in the gravity/aligned location.
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