Habituation studies are primarily used to determine whether infants:
a. can learn to associate people and emotional experiences (e.g., learning to associate seeing the parent with positive feelings)
b. can learn to associate objects with sensory experiences (e.g., learning to associate honey with a sweet taste)
c. can tell the difference between different things (e.g., between different lemur faces)
d. have learned object names (e.g., whether they know that "dog" refers to a four-legged, furry pet that is not a cat).
Ans: c. can tell the difference between different things (e.g., between different lemur faces)
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