TY - JOUR
T1 - The acquisition and violation of expectancy
T2 - An experimental paradigm
AU - Lewis, Michael
AU - Goldberg, Susan
N1 - Funding Information:
‘This research was conducted at the Fels Research Institute and was supported in part by grants HD-00868, FR-00222, and FR-05537 from the National Institute of Mental Health, United States Public Health Service. The authors wish to thank Helen Campbell who served as one of the experimenters.
PY - 1969/2
Y1 - 1969/2
N2 - An experiment, using 44-month-old children, was conducted wherein a repeated presentation of a stimulus (S1) was followed by a new stimulus (S2). It was predicted that attention, as measured by orientation of the head and fixation of the eyes, cardiac deceleration, smiling, and pointing, would show response decrement over repeated trials of S1 and would show response recovery to S2. The data of this experiment confirmed these hypotheses and the results are discussed in terms of the orienting reflex, emotion, and general theories of attentional processes in the young child.
AB - An experiment, using 44-month-old children, was conducted wherein a repeated presentation of a stimulus (S1) was followed by a new stimulus (S2). It was predicted that attention, as measured by orientation of the head and fixation of the eyes, cardiac deceleration, smiling, and pointing, would show response decrement over repeated trials of S1 and would show response recovery to S2. The data of this experiment confirmed these hypotheses and the results are discussed in terms of the orienting reflex, emotion, and general theories of attentional processes in the young child.
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U2 - 10.1016/0022-0965(69)90086-1
DO - 10.1016/0022-0965(69)90086-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 5777823
AN - SCOPUS:0014467828
SN - 0022-0965
VL - 7
SP - 70
EP - 80
JO - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
JF - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
IS - 1
ER -