When a 2-Day-Old Infant Consistently Shows a Visual Preference for a Bull's-Eye

question 106

Multiple Choice

When a 2-day-old infant consistently shows a visual preference for a bull's-eye pattern over a checkerboard pattern, we know that the infant

• A) has normal 20/20 vision.
• B) can see fine details as well as adults can.
• C) can see the difference between the two patterns (stimuli).
• D) recognizes circles more quickly than squares.

---

Definitions:

Breast-Milk Feeding

The practice of feeding an infant human milk, usually directly from the breast, but potentially also pumped and bottle-fed, as the primary source of nutrition.

Intellectual Development

The process of developing mental capabilities and processing skills such as reasoning, problem-solving, and understanding concepts.

Experiments

Scientific procedures undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.

Illusory Correlation

The perception of a relationship between two variables when no such relationship actually exists.