At about 9 months of age, infants develop a fear of strangers because they cannot assimilate unfamiliar faces and people into their:

a. accommodation.
b. sense of self.
c. schema.
d. theory of mind.

C. Infants have a schema for familiar people at 9 months of age. An unfamiliar person does not fit into that schema and therefore the infant has difficulty with that new person.

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