When the mother is standing over the crib where the infant is, Jerome Bruner observed that the three to eight-week-old baby will become agitated and begin to cry if the infant hears the mothers' voice coming from a loudspeaker rather than her mouth. This illustrates that babies

a. are startled by loud noises.
b. have more acute vision than was previously thought.
c. seem to understand that a person's voice and body should be connected.
d. are unable to localize and predict where sounds should come from.


C

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