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Testing Pattern Behavior Analysis

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I think that your analysis is very good. However, if I were to test pattern preferences, I would use the method or preferential looking. According to the textbook, Life-Span Human Development, 7th edition, by Carol Sigelman, on page 175, preferential looking has "researchers that present an infant with two stimuli and measure the length of time the infant spends looking at each. A preference for one over the other indicates that the infant discriminates between the two stimuli." This method is good to use because if you place a blank color and a pattern next to eachother, the infant will tend to look at the pattern instead, meaning that they fix their eyes on the pattern. This was also discussed in class on Tuesday about why a infant chooses

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