The primary point of John Bowlby's theory of attachment is that

A) differences in infant attachment lead to differences in adult temperament and
emotionality.
B) attachment behaviors evolved because they increase the chances that infants will survive.
C) infants are instinctively motivated to receive contact comfort from their parents.
D) parents must learn to nurture and comfort their infants by observing their own parents.

B

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a. retinal disparity. b. change blindness. c. the Ponzo illusion. d. the phi phenomenon

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Infant babbling

a. occurs after protowords form. b. reflects the sounds and rhythm of the adult speech the infant hears. c. suggests that very young infants cannot discriminate between vowel sounds. d. only occurs in the presence of a caregiver. e. precedes cooing, but only among infants in Western language cultures.

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