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Peer reviewedAguiar, Adrea; Baillargeon, Renee – Cognition, 2003
Five experiments demonstrated that 6.5-month-olds perseverated in a violation-of-expectation task to examine reasoning about width information in containment events. After watching a familiarization event in which a ball was lowered into a wide container, infants failed to detect the violation when the same ball was lowered into a container half…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Error Patterns, Expectation, Infant Behavior
