"violation of expectancy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used when referring to a situation in which someone's expectations have been disrupted or broken. Example: The sudden resignation of the company's CEO was a violation of expectancy for the employees who were expecting stability and continuity in leadership.
Here too the violation of expectancy looking time paradigm has been used to test the Empiricist claim that such knowledge requires an extended learning period.
We report here on five experiments using the violation of expectancy looking time measure with free-ranging rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), each designed to build on current knowledge concerning spontaneous representations of number.
A dopamine agonist specific to the dopamine three receptor, -7-Hydroxy-dipropylaminotetralin HBr) and the dopamine-2 receptor antagonist raclopride were administereceptorquimolantagonisteraclopride to assess the involvement of the dopamine receptor subtypes in the violation of expectancy food intake effects.
Thus, the violation of expectancy in this experiment was established by the period of exposure (lasting for 30 min) prior to testing.
The current study, however, is the first to index temporal expectancy for a particular structural aspect of a temporal sequence instead of expectancy of a single event: The violation of expectancy could only occur for the underlying beat, not the onset of individual tones in the rhythm, since the latter could not be predicted in these conditions.
A landmark study (Baillargeon et al. 1985) used the violation-of-expectancy paradigm to test the Piagetian claim that infants lack object permanence.
To illustrate this set size limit, which has emerged in a variety of experiments, consider the following study that used crawling, rather than violation-of-expectancy, as an indicator of the baby's representation (Feigenson & Carey 2005).
While measures of grasping, crawling, and sucking have all been successfully used to reveal some of what is going on in the baby's mind, the measure that has been used most extensively is the violation-of-expectancy looking time (sometimes called preferential looking time).
We study two types of violation of expectancies that generate the emotions of frustration and euphoria.
We exploit a series of natural experiments that use real crime data to investigate the effect of a violation of expectancies on violent crime.
The present study was designed to assess violations of dietary expectation and the role the dopamine-3 receptor plays in integrating reward-related food intake in violations of expectancy.
