ke their time habituating the results between the fast and the slow habituates would be the same.While Baillargeon was conducting her own research, she was interesting in some of unfinished research that DeLoache left open and presented some new hypothesis. Although DeLoache did figure out that infants habituate at different rates, she didn’t answer why some infants are fast while others are slow at habituating stimulus? DeLoache’s only reasoning was that infants differ in their ability to encode information rather than their ability to understand and retrieve the information.Baillargeon added two different thoughts to answer the questions. One thought is that the slow habituators are less attentive and have a harder time focussing on new information. Baillargeon observed that the slow habituators were fussier and less alert. Lastly, Baillargeon thought it could be more than just cognitive reactions, and one should consider motivation, social, or physiological aspects. Further research is required to get the answer to this, but perhaps another child psychologist will research on the ideas of Baillargeon, just like a torch being passed on.All said, Baillargeon proved object permanence, but she wouldn’t have been able to conduct her research without knowledge of habitation rates that DeLoache proved. Not only did Baillargeon use DeLoache’s article to better aid her own research, but Baillargeon also gave more explanations for the missing part in DeLoache’s article. Research is valuable because it is the basis for all that we know. I doubt there will ever be a day when a person will not be able to use or build off another person’s research....
