When the Mother Is Standing Over the Crib Where the Infant

question 66

Multiple Choice

When the mother is standing over the crib where the infant is, Jerome Bruner observed that the three to eight-week-old baby will become agitated and begin to cry if the infant hears the mothers' voice coming from a loudspeaker rather than from the mother's mouth. This illustrates that babies

• A)are startled by loud noises.
• B)have more acute vision than was previously thought.
• C)seem to understand that a person's voice and body should be connected.
• D)are unable to localize and predict where sounds should come from.

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Definitions:

K

The symbol for potassium, a chemical element with atomic number 19, essential for plant growth and functioning of the nervous system in animals.

pH

A measurement system that determines whether an aqueous solution is acidic or basic, scaling from 0 (highly acidic) to 14 (highly basic).

K

Potassium, a chemical element with symbol K, essential for living organisms and used in numerous industrial processes.

[HCO3-]

The chemical notation for bicarbonate, an anion that acts as a buffer in maintaining acid-base balance in biological systems.