Can infants within the first days after birth recognize their own mother's voice? What evidence supports this conclusion?

What will be an ideal response?


Yes, they can. Infants are given an opportunity to turn on a recording of a woman's voice by sucking harder on a nipple. On average, they suck harder to turn on a recording of their own mother's voice than that of another woman.

Psychology

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A) balance life goals and commitments; consider how to handle life's problems B) accept and find meaning in her life; solidify her identity C) consider how to handle life's problems; accept and find meaning in her life D) solidify her identity; balance life goals and commitments

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In the context of baseline designs, which of the following statements is true about intrasubject replication?

A. It imposes an objective rule for deciding whether a behavioral baseline has stabilized. B. It assesses whether changes in the baseline level produced by an intervention are reversible. C. It allows to establish the reliability of the collected observations within each phase. D. It purports to establish the external validity of the findings made during a study.

Psychology

Ryan believes that psychopathology happens when people have extreme or incorrect ideas about the world and the self. Which model of the development of psychopathology would he most likely endorse?

a. biological b. social model c. psychological model d. biopsychosoical model x

Psychology