What Would Be the Most Effective Way to Familiarize an Infant

question 19

Multiple Choice

What would be the most effective way to familiarize an infant with the head-turn preference for an experiment that investigates whether the child can differentiate between French and English words?

• A) Allow the child to spend several minutes habituating to the experiment room while French and English words are presented at random from speakers in opposite corners of the room.
• B) Allow the child to spend several minutes habituating to the experiment room while alternating red and green lights, but no sounds, are presented from opposite corners of the room.
• C) Allow the child to spend several minutes habituating to the experiment room while a single light is presented simultaneously with a word in one or the other language from the same side of the room.
• D) Allow the child to spend several minutes sitting silently on the parent's lap in the experiment room.

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