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violation of expectation paradigm  

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  • A method of studying cognitive development in infants, including memory development. The baby is familiarized with an event. After a delay, the baby is confronted with an event that may or may not violate his/her expectations about the original event. The researcher concludes that the baby has a memory of the original event if the baby spends more time looking at the unexpected event.

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  • violation of expectancy paradigm

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Baillargeon, R., Devos, J., & Graber, M. (1989). Location memory in 8-month-old infants in a non-search AB task : Further evidence. Cognitive Development, 4(4), 345‑367. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0885-2014(89)90040-3

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Baillargeon, R., & Graber, M. (1988). Evidence of location memory in 8-month-old infants in a nonsearch AB task. Developmental Psychology, 24(4), 502-511. https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.24.4.502

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Margoni, F., Surian, L., & Baillargeon, R. (2024). The violation-of-expectation paradigm: A conceptual overview. Psychological Review, 131(3), 716–748. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000450

    [Study type: conceptual analysis, literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Stahl, A. E., & Kibbe, M. M. (2022). Great expectations : The construct validity of the violation-of-expectation method for studying infant cognition. Infant and Child Development, 31(6), e2359. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2359

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Wynn, K. (1992). Addition and subtraction by human infants. Nature, 358(6389), 749‑750. https://doi.org/10.1038/358749a0

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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