Research by Baillargeon in Which Infants Looked Longer at a Screen

question 67

Multiple Choice

Research by Baillargeon in which infants looked longer at a screen that rotated 180 degrees than at a screen that rotated up and stopped at the top of a box used the _____ paradigm in the test of whether the infants were able to mentally represent the box.

• A) visual preference
• B) violation-of-expectancy
• C) habituation
• D) preferential-looking

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