Jess is a few days old and already responds to his mother's voice and the book she read him in the last weeks of her pregnancy. This is an example of how in utero, the fetus acquires

a. visual information about the external environment through patterns of light and dark.
b. little auditory information beyond the mother's heartbeat.
c. auditory information about the mother's voice and the cadence of sound.
d. little sensory information and therefore does not learn until after birth.

C

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