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| Preferences | 1 |
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Direct linkHouston-Price, Carmel; Nakai, Satsuki – Infant and Child Development, 2004
This paper considers possible problems researchers might face when interpreting the results of studies that employ variants of the preference procedure. Infants show a tendency to shift their preference from familiar to novel stimuli with increasing exposure to the familiar stimulus, a behaviour that is exploited by the habituation paradigm. This…
Descriptors: Infants, Familiarity, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Preferences
