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- Title
The Effects of Preference for Visual Complexity on Habituation of Visual Fixation in Infants.
- Authors
Brown, Cheryl J.
- Abstract
To determine the relative effects of complexity values and preference values on habituation to a visual stimulus, 8-week-old infants were presented with either a 2 × 2, 8 × 8, or 24 × 24 checkerboard pattern for a 4-minute period. These stimuli were chosen because, for infants at this age, the 8 × 8 pattern is the most preferred stimulus, although the 24 × 24 pattern is the most complex in terms of physical dimensions. The Ss who were presented with the 8 × 8 pattern showed significantly less habituation than Ss in the other 2 groups which did not differ. These results do not support the hypothesis that degree of habituation is linearly related to complexity per se, but instead suggest that habituation is a linear function of preference for complexity.
- Subjects
INFANT psychology; HABITUATION (Neuropsychology); COMPLEXITY (Philosophy); HYPOTHESIS; STATISTICAL correlation; VISUALIZATION
- Publication
Child Development, 1974, Vol 45, Issue 4, p1166
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1128116