Your professor is conducting an investigation of visual attention in infants.A relatively complex pattern will be presented to the infants, hopefully eliciting visual attention.What do you predict will happen with repeated presentations of the complex visual stimulus?
A)The infants will show uniformly high levels of responding across all trials.
B)The infants will increase, then decrease, responding.
C)The infants will decrease, then increase, responding.
D)The infants will show a high level of responding on the first trial, then decreasing responding on subsequent trials.

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This is because of the habituation phenomenon in which infants' attention to a repeated stimulus decreases over time, but upon presentation of a novel stimulus, their attention increases again. Therefore, with repeated presentations of the complex visual stimulus, infants will first become habituated to it and show a decrease in responding, but then they will become sensitized to it again and show an increase in responding.

Your Professor Is Conducting an Investigation of Visual Attention in Infants.A