Of the following statements, which is an accurate description of an infant's perceptual abilities?
A) When newborns gaze, they can see the edges of objects.
B) Infants as young as one week of age seem to prefer attractive faces to less attractive faces.
C) Infants will display habituation to an unfamiliar pattern of objects or features of objects.
D) Infants develop depth perception only after a prolonged experience of walking toward and away from objects.
A
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