Researchers Have Found That Infants May Have an Innate Ability

question 27

Multiple Choice

Researchers have found that infants may have an innate ability to respond to faces.These researchers suggest that an interest in human faces may have developed because it helps newborns focus on their only source of food and care.These researchers are most likely following a(n) ____ approach.

• A) behavioral
• B) evolutionary
• C) cognitive
• D) biological

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Definitions:

Cognitive Processes

Mental processes such as thinking, knowing, problem solving, remembering, and forming mental representations.

Classical Conditioning

An educational process in which a response naturally happens is acquired by associating an environmental signal with a spontaneous stimulus.

Fixed Interval Schedule

A reinforcement schedule in operant conditioning where the first response is rewarded only after a specified amount of time has elapsed.

Classical Conditioning

A learning technique involving the frequent pairing of two stimuli, so that a response originally stimulated by the second of the stimuli is in the end stimulated by only the first stimulus.