When Researchers Showed 2-Month-Olds a Series of Pictures That Alternated

question 81

Multiple Choice

When researchers showed 2-month-olds a series of pictures that alternated in a predictable left-right sequence, the babies learned to shift their focus to the location of the next stimulus before it appeared. These findings indicate that the seeds of __________ are present in infancy.

• A) metacognition
• B) rehearsal
• C) planning
• D) semantic memory

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