Nathan Is a Happy and Healthy Three-Month-Old Baby

question 64

Multiple Choice

Nathan is a happy and healthy three-month-old baby.Based on preferential-looking and habituation research, what can you predict about Nathan's perceptual abilities?

• A)Nathan will not be able to distinguish between scrambled faces and real faces.
• B)Nathan will prefer a stranger's face to his mother's face.
• C)Nathan will prefer real faces to scrambled faces and he will also prefer his mother's face to a stranger's face.
• D)Nathan will prefer real to scrambled faces but will not be able to distinguish his mother's face from a stranger's face.

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