Answered: Cohen and Younger

Ciccarelli: Psychology_5 (5th Edition)

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ISBN:9780134477961

Author:Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White

Publisher:Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White

Chapter1: The Science Of Psychology

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Cohen and Younger conducted a study into when infants perceive whole forms. They habituated infants to an angle and then tested them with either a stimulus in which the size of the angle had changed but the orientation of the two component lines remained the same or a stimulus in which the size of the angle remained the same but the orientation of the lines had changed. They found that by 3 months of age infants seem to perceive the whole form. This was demonstrated by the finding that 3-month-olds:

a.visually scanned the vertex, where the two lines making up the angle met.

b. dishabituated to the stimulus that had a change in the orientation of the lines but no change in the size of the angle.

c.visually scanned the entire angle.

d. dishabituated to the stimulus that had a change in the size of the angle but no change in the orientation of the lines.

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