How Do Researchers Know That Infants Can Integrate Touch and Vision

question 83

Multiple Choice

How do researchers know that infants can integrate touch and vision early in life?

• A) After infants are allowed to suck on either a smooth or a bumpy pacifier, they prefer to look at the one they had previously sucked on.
• B) Infants like to touch soft items when compared to hard items.
• C) Infants reach for a toy and try to put the toy in their mouth.
• D) After infants see an object, they will show a preference for that object in pictures.

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