Using the Violation-Of-Expectancies Method, Investigators Have Found That Between 3

question 153

Multiple Choice

Using the violation-of-expectancies method, investigators have found that between 3 and 9 months of age, and sometimes earlier, infants appear to have at least an initial grasp of a wide variety of physical laws concerning the behavior of objects. For example, it has been demonstrated that infants in this age range show surprise when all of the following occur except:

• A) a hand lets go of an object and the object does not fall.
• B) an object appears to have fallen through a solid shelf instead of onto the shelf.
• C) noncausal events occur, such as an object bumping into a second object and then after a 5-second delay, the second object moving.
• D) searching for an object that is no longer in the location in which the infant placed it.