An Experimenter Finds That 3-Month-Old Ava Is Better Able to Discriminate

question 21

Multiple Choice

An experimenter finds that 3-month-old Ava is better able to discriminate faces when seeing the faces paired with their talking voices compared to seeing the faces alone. This is evidence in support of the _______ hypothesis.

• A) information processing
• B) object permanence
• C) multimodal stimuli
• D) intersensory redundancy
• E) stimulus salience

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