What Was Myrtle McGraw's Purpose in Doing the "Pin-Pricking" Study

question 46

Multiple Choice

What was Myrtle McGraw's purpose in doing the "pin-pricking" study with infants?

• A)she wanted to study physiological maturation in the infants
• B)she wished to determine if the infants would habituate to the pin pricks and not notice them
• C)she was studying fear conditioning, but using better controls than Watson
• D)she was examining which parts of the body were most sensitive to skin punctures

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Diastereotopic

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