Suppose You Show a Newborn Infant Four Photographs, One of His

question 36

Multiple Choice

Suppose you show a newborn infant four photographs, one of his mother smiling, one of his mother making a fearful face, one of a stranger smiling, and one of a stranger making a fearful face. Which photograph should you expect the newborn to look at for the longest time?

• A) the smiling mother
• B) the fearful mother
• C) the smiling stranger
• D) the fearful stranger

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Definitions:

Weber's Law

A principle stating that the smallest noticeable difference in stimulus intensity is proportional to the intensity of the initial stimulus.

Accommodation

In psychology, the process of adjusting pre-existing schemas or ideas in response to new information or experiences; in vision, the process by which the eye's lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina.

Subliminal Stimulation

The process of influencing individuals with signals or messages delivered below the threshold of conscious perception.

Visual Cortex

The part of the cerebral cortex responsible for processing visual information, located in the occipital lobe.