Human Growth and Development / Unit 3 HGD 0342 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Visual Preferences
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The idea
Measured by looking time, infants prefer curved lines to straight, faces to patterns, patterns to solids, and three-dimensional objects to flat ones.
In practice
An infant gazing longer at a new toy than at one seen many times.
Where people slip
Preferring novelty over familiarity is what lets researchers test infant memory, a method later entries return to.
Your place on the trail
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