How can we assess infant visual preferences?
a. By inference only, as they do not have enough experience to have developed preferences
b. By measuring how long infants look at particular objects
c. By assessing the degree of peripheral vision, which approximates visual preference
d. By comparing against other sensory preferences
b
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