CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The mere exposure effect is the tendency to develop a preference for things merely due to being familiar with them. Such behavior occurs with words, songs, faces, shapes, and so on. The effect is common with visual and auditory(sound) information. It is one of the cognitive biases of the human brain.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Mere Exposure Effect is simply a psychological phenomenon whereby people feel a preference for people or things simply because they are familiar. For example, babies smile at the people who smile at them more.

Detailed explanation-3: -The mere exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things or people that are more familiar to them than others. Repeated exposure increases familiarity. This effect is therefore also known as the familiarity effect.

Detailed explanation-4: -This phenomenon of liking for a stimulus-like a song, advertisement, or even a person-increasing when we are exposed to that stimulus multiple times is called the mere-exposure effect (Montoya et al., 2017). Essentially, simply becoming familiar with a stimulus leads to liking (Bornstein, 1989).

Detailed explanation-5: -Repeated exposure is the deliberate and conscious exposure over coincidental and unconscious interaction with a stimulus over a given time. One of the examples given in the article was hearing a song on the radio. This is an example of unconscious coincidental repeat exposure.