Which Statement About the Perceptual Narrowing Effect Is True

question 92

Multiple Choice

Which statement about the perceptual narrowing effect is true?

• A) Babies are not sensitive to speech sounds, but they become so over time.
• B) Human babies cannot discriminate individual faces of humans or monkeys.
• C) Six-month-olds can detect rhythmic changes in both Western and non-Western melodies.
• D) After exposure to Western music, 12-month-olds become aware of changes in non-Western rhythms.

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Definitions:

Hypothesis Testing

A statistical method used to determine if there is enough evidence in a sample of data to infer that a certain condition is true for the entire population.

Interval Estimation

Estimation of a population parameter with a range, or interval, of values within which one has a certain degree of confidence the population parameter falls.

Confidence Interval

A collection of numerical indicators, derived from sampling statistics, believed to contain the estimations of an obscure population parameter.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points collected in a sample from a population for the purpose of statistical analysis.