Why Is It Generally Considered Tentative to Describe What Infants

question 7

Multiple Choice

Why is it generally considered tentative to describe what infants are thinking in research about causation?

• A) Researchers can only base their inferences on what the infants say to them.
• B) Researchers can make inferences but do not really know what an infant is thinking.
• C) Researchers cannot make inferences because habituation tasks are inconclusive.
• D) Researchers often use older children to tell them what it is infants are thinking.

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