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1.The researchers were trying to find out whether the long term memory of infants were affected by the condition that they are in. According to previous studies, Event Segmentation Theory makes it easier for adults to process complex events, objects etc. It is proven that, for adults, long term memory is stronger when information is presented at event boundaries. This study wants to see whether that idea works with infants or not. Infants are also processing information by event segmentation, and previous studies shows that the way infants do event segmentation is similar to EST ability of adults. The study tries to answer two questions: Do infants have a stronger long term memory for the information that is presented at event boundaries or …show more content…

There were four different scenarios: a bucket appearing at an event boundary, a bucket appearing at an event non-boundary, a spade appearing at an event boundary, and a spade appearing at an event non-boundary. The infants watched the cartoon that they were assigned to for 4 times in a row. The reason behind this was to make sure that infants had enough time and exposure to encode the objects and events happening in the cartoon. The cartoon was about a crab on the beach, which was playing with a ball and then one of its claws was deflating the ball. To prove their hypothesis, the researchers placed a bucket or a spade approximately for 3 seconds; one at an event boundary (when the crab was deflating the ball) and one at before/after an event boundary (when the crab started to play with the ball). Then the researchers would wait for 10 minutes to test the memory of infants for 10 seconds by using visual-paired comparison (VPC) test. In VPC two objects were shown to infants: one object that was used in the cartoon and one unfamiliar one. During the VPC test, researchers used an eye-tracking method to observe how long infants look at the each object. According to time results, researchers aimed to figure out which object infants remembered. In addition to VPC test, researchers also had a pointing task; in which they showed two objects to infants and asked them to point to the one that …show more content…

Furthermore, researchers divided 9 seconds into 3 seconds long of three groups and analyzed the data from each group independently. There were no different results between genders. The researchers made a paired sample t-test and the results showed that infants lost interest as they were moving on with the three second long groups. They paid more attention to the first three seconds of the VPC test than the second three seconds, and they paid more attention to the second three seconds than they did to the last three seconds of the VPC test. The results showed that in the first three seconds, infants in the event boundary group showed a difference in their looking time to the familiar object from the cartoon and the random unfamiliar object. However, infants in the non-boundary version didn’t show a difference in their looking time to two different objects. They also have found a difference between the looking time of the familiar object from the cartoon in boundary and non-boundary versions. According to their results, they can prove that infants are affected by the environment or the events that they see the objects in. They have a stronger long term memory when it comes to remembering an object that they have seen at an event boundary. However, they have a possibility to not remember an object when they

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