Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ424885
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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Violation of Expectancy and Frustration in Early Infancy.
Alessandri, Steven M.; And Others
Developmental Psychology, v26 n5 p738-44 Sep 1990
A total of 80 infants, divided equally among 4 age groups, participated in a contingency learning task. Of these infants, 48 received an audiovisual stimulus contingent on arm movement, and 32 served as a yoked control group. Findings indicated that exposure to a period in which the infant's expectancy regarding contingent outcomes is violated increases responsivity. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Expectation, Extinction (Psychology), Infant Behavior, Infants, Learning, Personality, Responses
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Language: English
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