An infant can discriminate language from non-language sounds

a. after age 9 months.
b. after age 6 months.
c. after age 3 months.
d. at birth.

Answer: d. at birth.

Psychology

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a. resistance: a period of time when the body is physiologically activated and prepared to respond to the threat. b. alarm: the mobilization of the body in reaction to threat. c. exhaustion: the body's resources are depleted by chronic stress. d. homeostasis: : the body's tendency to return to a steady state of normal functioning.

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What did Harlow notice in his monkeys that led him to question psychoanalytic and learning theories?

Some of them showed no love for their mothers. They showed a stronger attachment to their cloth mothers than to their bottles. Some of them refused to eat from a bottle. They seemed to be comforted by their bottles in times of fear.

Psychology