Madeline is conducting an experiment for her developmental psychology course. She has designed some colored geometric shapes on index cards and she wants to find out if 1-month-old infants can see these shapes
Madeline decides to hold these shapes up side-by-side to see which shape the infants look at the longest. As a shape becomes more familiar to an infant, the infant will tend to look at that shape less and less over time. What technique is being used here?
a. Habituation
b. Reaction time
c. Performance speed
d. Evoked potential
a
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