Allport believed that infants:

a. experience a separation of themselves from everything else.
b. identify objects as belonging to them.
c. have little of what could be called a "personality."
d. have functionally autonomous motives.


ANS: C
FEEDBACK: Allport described infants as pleasure seeking, destructive, selfish, impatient, and dependent. He called them "unsocialized horrors." They possess little of what could be called a "personality."

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