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The Novelty Paradigm

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There are many elements that influence the way that a child develops in a cognitive sense. The Novelty Paradigm which includes things such as habituation, sucking, and looking preference are all ways to measure the advance of cognition in infants. Critically assessing the Novelty Paradigm of Habituation can help to give a better insight on the cognitive development of children. Specifically, a novelty paradigm is based off of methods is the theory that infants have a preference to novel rather than familiar stimuli (Siegler, 2014). Habitation, a type of novelty paradigm, is the study that infants will stare at newer objects for longer periods of time opposed to something that they have already seen before (Turk-Browne, 2008). Studies on habituation
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