How Do We Know That Infants Remember the Sounds That

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Multiple Choice

How do we know that infants remember the sounds that they heard prenatally?

• A) After only a few days, newborn infants learn to attend to their mother's voice more than their fathers' voice.
• B) Scientists have used microphones to record intrauterine fetal environment and picked up maternal sounds, such as the mother's voice.
• C) When young children were asked to recall the sounds they heard prenatally, they mainly described hearing their mother's voice.
• D) Mothers read passages from Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat during pregnancy, and after birth their babies increased their sucking rate to the passages.
• E) Researchers repeatedly played music to newborns and then observed that newborns who heard music responded differently than those who have not heard music.

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