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Peer reviewedMcCall, Robert B.; And Others – Child Development, 1977
This article reports two attempts to demonstrate the discrepancy hypothesis prediction that visual fixation time for human infants should be an inverted-U function of the magnitude of discrepancy between a new stimulus and a familiar standard. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Adaptation Level Theory, Attention, Eye Fixations, Infants
Peer reviewedMcCall, Robert B.; Melson, William H. – Developmental Psychology, 1970
Descriptors: Attention, Design Preferences, Females, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedMcCall, Robert B.; Kennedy, Cynthia Bellows – Child Development, 1980
Several propositions deduced from the discrepancy hypothesis were tested with four-month-old infants using random shapes in a habituation/discrepancy paradigm. (JMB)
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Infants, Pattern Recognition
Peer reviewedMelson, William H.; McCall, Robert B. – Child Development, 1970
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Stimuli, Conditioning, Females
Peer reviewedMcCall, Robert B. – Developmental Psychology, 1973
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Eye Fixations, Infants
