The Role of Stimulus Similarity in in [Sic] Children's Preferences for Novelty

Author

Larry Fenson

Publication Date

9-2-1965

Abstract

Berlyne (1960) has recently suggested that the degree of “novelty” possessed by a given stimulus is inversely related to three factors: (a) how often patterns that are similar enough to be relevant have been experienced before; (b) how similar they have been; and (c) how recently they have been experienced. Stated more simply, Berlyne is referring to the frequency, similarity, and recency of any stimulus.

Degree Name

Psychology

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

Psychology

First Committee Member (Chair)

Sidney Rosenblum

Second Committee Member

Frank Anderson Logan

Third Committee Member

Illegible

Sponsors

The Psychology Department of the University of New Mexico provided the funds for the purchase of film and slide mounts while the original prototype shapes used in constructing the stimuli and the equipment utilized in photographing and processing the film were the property of National Science Foundation Grant No. GB924, H. C. Ellis, principal investigator.

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Recommended Citation

Fenson, Larry. "The Role of Stimulus Similarity in in [Sic] Children's Preferences for Novelty." (1965). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/psy_etds/394