As Part of Your Study Involving Infant Preferences for Speech

question 38

Multiple Choice

As part of your study involving infant preferences for speech sounds, you decide to employ a sucking procedure. You are interested in measuring

• A) the length of time an infant will suck when hungry.
• B) whether infants can concentrate on sucking while speech sounds are presented.
• C) changes in sucking patterns in response to speech.
• D) whether infants will stop sucking when they prefer a sound.

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