A Developmental Comparison of Novelty-Familiarity Levels in First- and Fifth-Grade Children

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The current study provides a developmental comparison to an earlier investigation of Grade 1 children concerning the influence of novelty-familiarity levels on preference value of incentive objects. Twenty Grade 5 children were given binary incentive preference tests following each of four different single reward, familiarization treatment sequences. The functions relating lower mean percent choices of the higher valued incentive to decreasing novelty were highly similar for Grades 1 and 5, suggesting that the short-term novelty effect of the familiarization sequences was very stable across the age range, 6 to 11 years.

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