Detail how infants' ability to perceive faces changes between 3 and 9 months of age.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Newborns can distinguish their mother's face from that of a stranger.
2. By 5 months of age, infants recognize facial expressions, such as an expression of joy or fear.
3. By 3 to 6 months, babies prefer to look at photographs of people with facial features that resemble the baby's own racial group, unless the baby was exposed to a large number of people from more than one racial group.
4. From 3 to 9 months, babies become better able to distinguish among people from their own racial group and worse at distinguishing among people from an unfamiliar racial group.
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