What Finding Provides Evidence That Nature, as Opposed to Nurture

question 97

Multiple Choice

What finding provides evidence that nature, as opposed to nurture, plays an important role in infants' perceptual development?

• A) Infants are born with a tendency to track moving objects and to scan the horizon.
• B) Failure to receive adequate sensory stimulation can result in sensory deficits.
• C) Infants who have one eye patched for an extensive period of time may develop impaired visual acuity.
• D) Infants are born with an ability to recognize faces within three days.

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Definitions:

Self-Serving Biases

Attributional distortions that protect or enhance self-esteem or the self-concept.

Ultimate Attribution Error

The tendency to attribute negative behaviors of an outgroup member to their character while attributing positive behaviors to situational factors.

Ingroup Actions

Refers to the behaviors and activities that are conducted by members within a specific group, often aimed at achieving the group's goals or maintaining its cohesion.

False Consensus Effect

Seeing our own behaviour as being more typical than it really is.