Quinn et al. (1993) examined the abilities of 3- and 4-month-old infants. After they looked at a series of photographs of cats, the infants were shown two new photos, one of a cat and one of a dog. They looked longer at the photograph of the dog

This indicated that infants this age ____.
a. like dogs better than cats
b. were bored with the cat photos
c. could categorize
d. were not sure what dogs were


C. This indicated that the infants had been using a category for "cat," and looked longer at the dog photo because it did not fit.

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