Researchers using the violation-of-expectation method may use habituation by exposing babies to a physical event until their looking declines.
What is exposure to infants?
- In the past, leaving infants in the wild to either perish from freezing, hunger, thirst, or animal attack, or possibly be collected and raised by people unable to have children of their own, was considered infanticide or at the very least child abandonment.
- This subject is covered in depth in The Myth of the Birth of the Hero by Otto Rank.
- Exposure, particularly in the presence of water, "is nothing more or less than the symbolic manifestation of birth."
What is the mechanism of violation of expectations?
- Increases in an infant's looking time at an event or other stimulus are interpreted as evidence that the outcome he or she expected has not happened in a habituation and dishabituation technique for studying infant cognition.
- For instance, a researcher might repeatedly return a toy to a blue box as a baby watches.
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