When the mother is standing over the crib where the infant is,
Jerome Bruner observed that the three to eight- weekÂold baby will become agitated and begin to cry if the infant hears the mothers' voice coming from a loudspeaker rather than from the mother's mouth. This illustrates that babies
a. are startled by loud noises.
b. have more acute vision than was previously thought.
c. seem to understand that a person's voice and body should be connected.
d. are unable to localize and predict where sounds should come from.
ANSWER: c
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A) This is additive bilingualism. B) This is subtractive bilingualism. C) This is simultaneous bilingualism. D) This is sequential bilingualism.
Recall that Zajonc and his colleagues (1969) employed the lowly cockroach in their studies of social facilitation. In the presence of other cockroaches,
roaches would run faster down a straightaway to escape a bright light than they would alone, but took longer in the presence of a cockroach audience when the escape route was more complicated (i.e., when they had to run a maze). These findings support the idea that a. members of even the lowliest species experience evaluation apprehension. b. cockroaches differ from humans in their response to other members of their species. c. the presence of other members of a species elicits the most dominant response. d. the presence of other members of a species impedes the most dominant response.