Research by Baillargeon in which infants looked longer at a screen that rotated 180 degrees than at a screen that rotated up and stopped at the top of a box used the _____ paradigm in the test of whether the infants were able to mentally represent the box.
A) visual preference
B) violation-of-expectancy
C) habituation
D) preferential-looking

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The violation-of-expectancy paradigm involves presenting infants with an event that violates their expectations, suggesting that they have a mental representation or cognitive expectation of the event. In this case, the infants' longer looking time at the screen that rotated 180 degrees suggests that they were surprised or had an expectation that the screen would not be able to rotate beyond the box, indicating a mental representation of the box.

Research by Baillargeon in Which Infants Looked Longer at a Screen