Why Does the Finding That 4-Month-Old Infants Have Intermodal Perception

question 97

Multiple Choice

Why does the finding that 4-month-old infants have intermodal perception challenge Piaget's theory?

• A)Piaget argued that young infants do not have the ability to coordinate sensory information from multiple sources.
• B)Piaget believed that this ability was present at birth.
• C)Piaget discounted many infant behaviors indicating intermodal perception as coincidental and random.
• D)Piaget believed that infants relied primarily on vision to build cognitive ability throughout the first year of life.

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