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Attentional Focus Moderates Habituation-Language Relationships: Slow Habituation May Be a Good Thing
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Direct linkDixon, Wallace E., Jr.; Smith, P. Hull – Infant and Child Development, 2008
An interesting paradox in the developmental literature has emerged in which fast-habituating babies tend to be temperamentally difficult and fast language learners, even though temperamentally difficult babies tend to be slow language learners. The purpose of the present investigation was to examine whether the paradoxical relationships among…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Habituation, Language Acquisition
