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Developmental Psychology

Habituation Helps Measure Infant Attention

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Habituation helps scientists measure infant attention before babies can talk. Researchers study infants because they have had very few life experiences, so they can offer clear clues about human thinking and learning. Studying them is challenging because young infants cannot reliably speak, understand speech, or even move an...

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Pour explorer les premiers stades du développement conceptuel – lorsque les nourrissons sont incapables de parler de manière fiable, de comprendre la parole ou de contrôler précisément les mouvements – les chercheurs ont mis au point des techniques intelligentes qui utilisent des méthodes d’habituation.

Comme les adultes, les nourrissons ...

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Infant HabituationDishabituationShape DiscriminationLooking Time MeasurementWithin Subjects DesignAttention Getter StimulusHabituation CriterionTest Phase TrialsLooking Time AnalysisDevelopmental Psychology

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