What Do Nativists Do,with Respect to Cognitive Abilities

question 155

Multiple Choice

What do nativists do,with respect to cognitive abilities

• A) They strive to understand the adaptive significance of abilities that appear to be prewired. 
• B) They attempt to find out which abilities are prewired, without making any assumptions about why these abilities might be innate. 
• C) They assert that abilities that are prewired will be less prone to habituation or dishabituation. 
• D) They suggest that infants attend more to novel events because these events require more time for perceptual processing.

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