Studies of the Ability of Infants to Respond to Other

question 24

Multiple Choice

Studies of the ability of infants to respond to other people's emotional expressions have found that

• A) infants as young as three days of age are able to imitate several facial expressions modeled by an adult.
• B) two-week-old infants can discriminate the emotional displays of others but cannot yet imitate them.
• C) the ability to discriminate among different emotions emerges at about three months of age.
• D) adult observers are unable to identify the facial expressions that young infants are attempting to imitate.

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